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Marcellin Boule, “L’homme fossile de la Chapelle-aux-Saintes” in Annales de Paléontologie 6–8 (1911–1913).

For the original interpretation, see Henry de Lumley, “A Paleolithic Camp at Nice,” Scientific American 220 (1969), pp. 42–50. A more recent interpretation has thrown this reconstruction into question: See Paolo Villa, Terra Amata and the Middle Pleistocene Archaeological Record of Southern France, Publications in Anthropology, vol. 13 (Berkeley: Univ. of California, 1983).

Ernestine Friedl, “Sex the Invisible”, in American Anthropologist 96 (1994), p. 833.

So far as I know, noted only by Erik Hornung, as cited in H. Buchberger, Sexualitat und Harfenspiel Notizen zur “sexuellen” Konnotation der altgyptischen Ikonographie in Göttinger Miszellen 66 (1983), p. 18.

Most recently, see Hartwig Altenmuller, Geburtsschrein und Geburtshaus, in Der Manuelian and Freed, Studies, Vol. I, p. 30.

See Troy, Patterns of Queenship, pp. 20–23. How ancient Egyptian women underwent such a process is a more difficult issue, discussed recently by Ann Roth, “Father Earth, Mother Sky: Ancient Egyptian Beliefs About Conception and Fertility”, in Alison Rautman ed., Reading the Body Representations and Remains in the Archaeological Record (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 2000), pp. 198–199.