This is one of the most prominent themes forming a component of what this author has dubbed Primal Imagery, persisting from the Paleolithic in Europe into Middle Woodland at this site, and into modern but traditional Inuit/Yupik iconography.
 

Standing Limestone Figure - Day's Knob Archaeological Site 

From Day's Knob, a standing limestone "Venus"-like figure with a face emerging from its belly.

The emerging face straight on - weathered but still quite recognizable.
 
"Venus" Statue - Day's Knob Archaeological Site

Another standing limestone figure with an emerging face, this one with the classic one-eye-open one-eye-closed motif.
 
For comparison, the same theme in a nineteenth-century Yupik shaman's mask.

The Detroit Institute of Arts: http://www.dia.org/collections/aonwc/nativeamericanart/77.69.html
   
From Day's Knob, a large limestone bird carved and broken to convey an image suggestive of human pregnancy.  Below:  Two crested faces (looking to the right) on the bottom surface of the bird's belly.
 

A bifrontal limestone bird figure about 45 cm (18") in length.
Apparently the same motif in a stone figure (length 15 cm, 6") from Savona, Italy, 32,000-70,000 years BP.

Ref.:  http://www.museoorigini.it/pagina57.html
 

Limestone Bird Figure - Artifact from Turkey
From Turkey, there is this fine example of the motif - A  limestone bird, height 6 cm (2.4"), with a humanlike face emerging from its belly, lower right corner.
 

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