I fully agree with what you're saying, but I just want add something to your comment in case people might misinterpret this sentence: > What I think you might

I fully agree with what you're saying, but I just want add something to your comment in case people might misinterpret this sentence: > What I think you might be missing is that Venus could be a pet project of a single person, done in their free time over some period. Yes, a single Venus figure is likely made by a single person. But the Venus of Willendorf is not unique. There are 200 over known "Venus figurines" from a period of 300,000 BC to 11,00 BC. So they were a wide-spread phenomenon indicating some form of shared socio-cultural connection among the early humans despite how far we were spread out and how much lower the population density was compared to now. This is of course tangential to the point you were making. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_figurine https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_figurine