(July 21, 2015 at 5:53 pm)Minimalist Wrote: One religious artifact...probably a fertility cult symbol...doesn't tell us much.
Careful, that's still an assumption and probably will be forever. Truth is, noone can say what it was made for. That it stands for fertility is a good guess. If it stands for religion is up for debate.
I don't go by textbook definitions anyway. I would say, the borders between culture and civilization are fleeting. Fact is, we can't say, how the society they worked in looked like. We don't know anything about them. Neither their social structures nor who the actually were, since we have no bodies.