sentences:  The bull-shaped gold platelets perhaps also venerated virility, instinctive force, and warfare.Gimbutas holds that the artifacts were made largely by local craftspeople.The discontinuity of the Varna, Karanovo, Vinča and Lengyel cultures in their main territories and the large scale population shifts to the north and northwest are indirect evidence of a catastrophe of such proportions that cannot be explained by possible climatic change, desertification, or epidemics.