The 24,000-Year-Old Boy Buried With 120 Beads And A Mammoth-Ivory Tiara — And The DNA Test That Revealed A Hidden Source Of Native American Ancestry
They may represent a generalized ideal of the female body associated with fertility or abundance.
They may be portraits, in some abstract sense, of real individuals.
They may be used in ritual contexts — passed between community members, carried during travel, worn as pendants (some have perforations suggesting suspension).
They may have served different functions for different individuals.
What cannot be doubted is that the people who made them found the exercise worthwhile — repeatedly, over what appears to have been an extended period of site occupation.
They invested time and skill and material in the creation of objects whose purpose was not obviously practical.
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