I would simply note that figurines of horses, cattle, and other livestock are also found at prehistoric sites.
Women may not have been so much respected as valued, for their ability to produce sons instead of daughters, or producing strong offspring that survived to adulthood.
Likewise, the idols (or at least, statuettes ) were broken, which could just as easily represent a symbolic sacrifice of some sort as anything else.
There is definitely room for interpretation.
Good point. For all we know this was an accounting system, not that dissimilar to other known preliterate accounting systems.