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2025-02-11 12:28 UTC
Plus, let's tackle the mammoth in the room, one single interpretation applying across 24,000 years and 7,500km is unrealistic, yet that's the common approach. We know oral traditions can continue for a long time provided these aren't threatened by factors such as mass migration, environmental changes, and significant outside interactions. Yet we know palaeolithic cultures migrated and absorbed one another, the landscape changed drastically, and groups interacted. (9/12)
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@cassana@the-crossroads-inn.com 2025-02-11 12:28
In fact, two plausible social alternative interpretations of the figurines are that they were used as bartering currency or alliance/marriage tokens, which has a larger intercultural cross-communal survival chance. We know from wear patterns that they were handled regularly and that they were commonly found hundreds of kilometres away from the material's source location. Seen that way, the figurine's could indicate communal growth and continuation, for which you need mothers. (10/12)