The cone shaped object, to be honest, looks like a top to a primitive butter churn-type set up. My mother had one at our house for years, and I know the shape well. Could be placed on top of a rock carved into a bowl, or a tree stump with the same shape, and slide a stick into it to churn it away.


Probably be well off base with that, but would not be at all suprised if it's not too far off.


in the article I saw another interesting thing...

Each of the figurines had been covered with the shoulder-blade of a mammoth.


Wonder about the significance of that. These people seemed to really worship the mammoths, which COULD be an answer to why the pointed faces on the carvings.

Without being able to totally carve out a trunk appendage on a figure like that, the pointed face feature would be an approximation of it.


Yea.. that feels pretty right. That would also explain why they appear to be pregnant. Anthropomorphizing the mammoths into human figures, pregnant, as a type of fertility icon.

I wonder if the time period of these relics comes from a time when the mammoths were dying off, and this was a way for them to try to bring them back.

The shape of the skull might actually be close to what they looked like with the skull and flat face and possibly a protruding lower jaw or underbite, possibly even from the loss of teeth? The detail might be enhanced if they used more advanced scanning equipment. My guess is it's holding a basket or similar. Concluding that it's a reptillian seems far fetched but possible here on this site. Maybe it was a gift by a visitor to these people also.

oh ive always like that kind of stuff. I am a big art fan. But something about prehistoric figures and statues just seems extra neat to me.

Nice find!

I wonder what the cone shaped objects are used for. So interesting.

S&F

The round disk like object represents some UFO to me. It is quite possible that aliens were visiting us since Stone Age

when i saw the figurines i thought they looked somewhat reptillian, the cone shaped thing just looked like a wheel though its hard to deturmine the scale of it

The cone shaped artifact reminds me very much like a the axle stops from chariots. Obviously this dig is very much before that about 12000 years at least according to the second article.

I wonder if it could have been from a wheel, a simple cart or "barrow" affair, the first wheel discovered is meant to be from mesopotamia around 3500BC, altho it has been estimated to have been in use in asia around 8000 BC.