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  2. Prehistoric ivory ‘baton’ puzzled experts for years. A new ...

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    The rope-making “baton” found at Hohle Fels Cave offers one way that the Aurignacian culture manufactured such an essential material, researchers said. Hohle Fels Cave is in southern Germany ...

  3. Perforated baton - Wikipedia

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    In some instances, a rope making tool. The British Museum "scope note" for "Perforated baton" says in 2011: "They are now understood to [be] implements used in the manufacture and throwing of spears." [12] Focusing only on what the objects were used for does not, however, account for why they were decorated.

  4. Hohle Fels - Wikipedia

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    The existence of these tools at different locations indicates rope-making had already become an important human activity by the Upper Paleolithic. Chris Stringer, Research Leader in Human Origins at the Natural History Museum, London, said, "These devices were called batons and were originally thought to have been carried by chiefs as badges of ...

  5. Club (weapon) - Wikipedia

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    An assortment of club weapons from the Wujing Zongyao from left to right: flail, metal bat, double flail, truncheon, mace, barbed mace. A club (also known as a cudgel, baton, bludgeon, truncheon, cosh, nightstick, or impact weapon) is a short staff or stick, usually made of wood, wielded as a weapon or tool [1] since prehistory.

  6. Knotted cord - Wikipedia

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    Knotted cords were used by many ancient cultures. The Greek schoenus is referred to as a rope used to measure land. Ropes generally became cables and chains with Pythagoras making the Greek agros a chain of 10 stadia equal to a nautical mile c 540 BC. The Romans used a waxed cord for measuring distances.

  7. Rare, ancient tool used for horses is found in German ...

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    It indicates that the ancient inhabitants of the region treated animals with care, officials said. Rare, ancient tool used for horses is found in German construction site, officials say Skip to ...

  8. List of earliest tools - Wikipedia

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    This list excludes tools and tool use attributed to non-hominin species. See Tool use by non-humans. Since there are far too many hominin tool sites to list on a single page, this page attempts to list the 6 or fewer top candidates for oldest tool site within each significant geographic area.

  9. Grappling hook - Wikipedia

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    Ancient Japanese iron kaginawa climbing hook A chain grapnel – used to recover a cable from the seabed. A grappling hook or grapnel is a device that typically has multiple hooks (known as claws or flukes) attached to a rope or cable; it is thrown, dropped, sunk, projected, or fastened directly by hand to where at least one hook may catch and hold on to objects.