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  2. Perforated baton - Wikipedia

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    A tool for smoothing and shaping leather thongs. [ 9 ] A dildo ; few archaeologists consider these items as sex toys, but archaeologist Timothy Taylor put it, "Looking at the size, shape, and—some cases—explicit symbolism of the ice age batons, it seems disingenuous to avoid the most obvious and straightforward interpretation.

  3. National Register of Historic Places listings in Eau Claire ...

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    Spans the Eau Claire R. between Galloway and Gibson Sts. Eau Claire: 442-foot steel Warren deck truss railroad bridge across the Eau Claire River, built in 1910 for the Soo Line by Minneapolis Steel and Machinery Co. The bridge follows an S-curve to join two parallel rail lines without any sharp bends.

  4. 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 ...

  5. Top (tool) - Wikipedia

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    A typical Top used in rope making. A top is a hand tool with an iron loop and hook used in the creation and splicing of rope. A Top is used to simultaneously hold a piece of rope while providing a hole to separate the "lays" (or strands) of synthetic or natural rope for splicing. A variation of a Top, the gripfid, is used for ply-split braiding ...

  6. Phoenix Manufacturing Company - Wikipedia

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    The firm also furnished building parts such as arches, plates, and columns. Many structures in the Eau Claire still feature slim support columns marked with the Phoenix name. [1] The company's largest success was with the Phoenix Log Hauler, a licensed version of a Lombard Steam Log Hauler. Over a hundred of these log haulers were produced.

  7. Ancient canoe — oldest ever found in Great Lakes — recovered ...

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    About 3,000 years ago, indigenous people of the Ho Chunk Nation in the Lake Mendota region carved a dugout canoe, the Wisconsin Historical Society said in a news release on Thursday, Sept. 22. A ...

  8. 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 ...

  9. Knotted cord - Wikipedia

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    A knotted cord was a primitive surveyor's tool for measuring distances. It is a length of cord with knots at regular intervals. They were eventually replaced by surveyor's chains, which being made of metal were less prone to stretching and thus were more accurate and consistent. Knotted cords were used by many ancient cultures.