I like the idea that this wasn't even a finished, elaborate object. This was just someone doodling around on a piece of ivory, seeing what interesting shapes th

I like the idea that this wasn't even a finished, elaborate object. This was just someone doodling around on a piece of ivory, seeing what interesting shapes they could make. And we're treating it as the highest possible artistic output of their entire culture and analysing it with our incredible space-age tech. I like to think their reaction would be embarrassment, like "please, I was just experimenting with that, I didn't even know how to do the drilling properly back then, there's so many better pieces being done by other people. Find one of them and analyse that, please. This is so embarrassing"