Among the grave goods were bird-shaped objects carved from ivory.

These carvings show skill and artistic intention — the birds are recognizable as birds, shaped with an understanding of avian anatomy and the patience to translate that understanding into worked ivory.

What the birds meant to the people who made them is unknown.

They may have had spiritual significance.

They may have been associated with a specific role or identity.

They may have been toys, in the human sense: objects made for a child who could not use them any longer.

There were pendants, more beads, and additional ivory pieces whose specific form and function have been interpreted differently by different researchers over the decades.