A recent study by Allison Tripp of the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada, and Naomi Schmidt of New Mexico State University in Las Cruces demonstrated that female figurines from around 25,000 years ago have bodies of all shapes and sizes, not just
the exaggerated anatomical features of the famous «Venuses» (Archaeology, Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia, vol 41, in press).
The Venus figurines of women, some with
exaggerated anatomical features, and ancient rock art, like the image from the Abri Castanet site in France that is supposedly of female genitalia.