With prominent hips and breasts, Piette et Laporterie (1894) described this as a dagger handle, with space at the back for a blade.
reading list
- https://www.hominides.com/art-prehistorique/dame-de-brassempouy/
- White, R. (2006). The Women of Brassempouy: A Century of Research and Interpretation. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, 13(4), 251–304. http://www.jstor.org/stable/20177543
- Piette, E., Laporterie J. (1894). Les fouilles de Brassempouy en 1894, Bulletins de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris, IV° Série, tome 5, 1894. pp. 633-648.
- https://www.donsmaps.com/brassempouy.html
cover image source
Photo: Don Hitchcock 2015Source: Original, la salle Piette, Musée d'Archeologie Nationale et Domaine, St-Germain-en-LayeCatalog: MAN47260, available at https://www.donsmaps.com/brassempouy.html
