Do you mean that you think that the incising, grooving, scraping and imprinting traces made in the wet clay and shown here (Figure 3 & 4) are not modeling traces?

Thanks for sharing. Did you saw the numerous modeling and tool marks on both the goose and the woman shown in Figures 3 & 4? As well as the technical drawing highlighting both individuals?

📸👇The fingerprint of the #Natufian young adult/adult female who meticulously modeled the clay figurine of a woman and a goose 12,000 years ago in Nahal Ein Gev II.
Details in @pnas.org
doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

📢📷 🪿New #PaperAlert in @pnas.org :
Earliest figurine depicting a human-animal interaction

A 12,000-year-old baked clay and ochre-colored figurine of a woman and a goose discovered in Late Natufian Nahal Ein Gev II (Upper Jordan Valley)

doi.org/10.1073/pnas...