> Shunkov explains:
> "All jewellery had a magical meaning for ancient people. Bracelets and neck adornments were to protect people from evil spirits, for instance."
Shunkov, you have no idea whatsoever whether or not jewelry had any magical meaning for ancient people, let alone that all jewelry had magical meaning for all ancient people. It's a wild-ass guess, and an embarrassing one, given the way it is qualified.
Modern archaeologists have noticed that these figures are usually found in the junk heaps of digs along with broken things and animal bones, while the “treasures” — tools and jewelry — are found elsewhere, and speculate that the figures are just cast-off toys. I would love to hear what my professor thinks of this...
In a thousand years, someone will marvel at and create grand ludicrous theories about the meaning of the millions of AOL CDs that they have dug up in a landfill.
1000 years from now such a college professor would declare that we today were living in a “goddess culture” and matriarchal society based on the prevalence in the corresponding archaeological strata of the main cultural artifact of our time - Internet - of the depictions of women with the "Parts of the body associated with fertility and childbearing have been emphasized" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_of_Willendorf#Interpreta...)
>Modern archaeologists have noticed that these figures are usually found in the junk heaps of digs along with broken things and animal bones
And the future archaeologists would probably also notice that the major collections of those supposedly "goddess culture" and the matriarchate related depictions were mostly kind of separate from the other artifacts of that ancient Internet.