Talalay, Lauren E. , "Archaeological Ms.conceptions: Contemplating Gender and the Greek Neolithic", in Representations of Gender From Prehistory To the Present, 5-9, 2000, Springer, شابک۱۳۴۹۶۲۳۳۱۸, 9781349623310. For an international survey of the subject in general, see The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines, ed. Timothy Insoll, 2017, Oxford University Press, شابک۰۱۹۹۶۷۵۶۱۹, 9780199675616, which has few mentions of pregnancy in its 900 pages. For Pre-Classic examples from the Highlands of گواتمالا، see Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 2 and 3
Following Luke 1:26, where Elizabeth is six months pregnant at the Annunciation. The relevant medieval Western feasts were Feast of the Annunciation on 25 March, Nativity of Saint John the Baptist on 25 June, and Christmas on 25 December. The feast of the Visitation itself was on 2 July, rather illogically, as it was then after the birth of John.
