[SunkenCiv]

Bone tools

Courtesy Grzegorz Osipowicz/National Science Centre, Poland, project no. 2021/43/B/HS3/00500

[Telepathic Intruder]

Tree bark was a very important resource for our Stone Age ancestors. They could make all kinds of useful stuff from it. It can be cooked and the oil separated for waterproofing leather. It can be turned into cement for making tools and weapons. It can even be boiled and eaten, if nothing else.

[Repeal The 17th]

“...these were thought to be chisels,
but recent reanalysis as part of the project
Life and Death Written in Bones suggested
they were likely used to remove the bark from pine trees...”
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Wouldn’t a tool used to remove bark from a pine tree
still be called a “chisel”?

[martin_fierro]

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