http://i.imgur.com/k2Crhea.jpg
Do we have any record of what they might be for? If not, what is the earliest record we have about what masks might have been used for? What kind of culture would have had them?
These are masks from the Neolithic Near East, what's now Palestine/Israel. What they were used for is [still speculative] (https://books.google.com/books?id=m1b1VgN-SckC&pg=PA30&lpg=PA30&dq=stone+mask+hebron+hills&source=bl&ots=8bBosZQo6G&sig=CLg4G3SanQoDJGvF_gSy20MbEqU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=08HfVJTfC9e3yAS98IKIAw&ved=0CEwQ6AEwCg#v=onepage&q=stone%20mask%20hebron%20hills&f=false).
