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The front has a natural slit for a mouth
and a natural depression for an eye. And
even if you want to go that far, a
nostril up at the front,
>> right?
>> With the head rearing up, it does in
modern eyes look like a snake.
The overall form has been altered to
make it look even more snake like.
There are over 300 indentations that
have been ground into the surface over
what is obviously an extended period of
time.
When the initial excavations were
conducted, they absolutely revealed a
number of questions.
One of the things found was an extremely
large number of tools that appeared to
been manufactured and then just left
there in pristine condition.
>> These look gorgeous. I mean, they're
absolutely stunning.
>> Once they were manufactured, then you
did one of three things with it. You
either manufactured it perfectly and
just left it.
>> Yeah.
>> Or more interestingly, you burnt it.
but not burnt to just like throwing it
in a bonfire.
It's control burning.
And the third and most bizarre thing
that they did with them is they made it,
manufactured it perfectly,
and when they were finished, turned it
over, smashed it in the middle.
This behavior suggests that people were
likely coming here to make offerings,
which tells us something about how their
minds worked. Although it's absolutely
magnificent during the daytime,
it comes to life at night.
You make an offering and hope for
something back. Asking for probably some
of the things that we would ask for,
food, health, children, etc., etc. And
you just think, "Oh my gosh, that's some
of the that's some of the earliest
behavior
that we know so well.