The three life-size figures show enough facial similarities that they could be three members of the same family, or even the same person at three stages of life; youth, prime of life, old age.
It's finds like this that remind us just how little we really know about early civilizations. I was watching a show about marine archaeology, and how they are finding neolithic cities that were submerged after the end of the last ice age. Think about how many modern cities would disappear if the sea level rose by seventy feet, and apply that to 10,000 years ago. One has been found off the coast of India, submerged under 50 feet of water. The island it was built upon was in the mouth of a river that served as the outlet for the floods that were unleashed when the glaciers of the Himilayas melted. Satellite photos show the channel of a river that makes the Nile look like a country stream, and it lasted for a thousand years.
One of the things we all have to remember is that we are just custodians of the past. Our collections don't belong to us, they're on loan to us.
