news.bbc.co.uk — Rare artefacts from the late Stone Age have been uncovered in Russia.The site at Zaraysk, 150km south-east of Moscow, has yielded figurines and carvings on mammoth tusks.The finds also included a cone-shaped object whose function, the authors report in the journal Antiquity, "remains a puzzle".
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nj10iiDec 2, 2008
Its obvious its a gear shift knob from a '157595 BC Jaguar XJS.
remccainDec 2, 2008
I was thinking I have a whole mess of 'em on my kitchen cabinets.But not made out of extinct mammoth ivory. Because that would just be wrong.
yukennaDec 2, 2008
Wow... OK! First off! Studies have shown that in order to domesticate the wolf, it took an extremely long time. There were the rare wolves that would stay near the human camps in order to benefit from the human kills. These wolves also had some juvinille tendencies, which later translated to the common domestic dog we know and love today (mature wolves rarely "bark". That is a puppy feature, along with short noses and floppy ears). Coat color, coat length, and body proportion changes are also some of the features of the domestication of these animals. For proof, lately there have been a series of experiments trying to domesticate a different canid, the silver fox (vulpes vulpes). You can read about it in full here: <a class="user" href="http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/807641/posts">http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/807641/post ...</a>In short, the man who ran this experiment chose foxes based solely on tameness. After breeding and inbreeding the tamest foxes, over the years some morphological changes occurred: an increase in coat color variation, floppy ears, rolled tails, shorter legs, and snout variations. ((Well whad'ya know!))It has been shown that "evolution" can be induced in a controlled environment. If you're looking for another bit of proof for evolution, I suggest you research more on bacteria and viruses. They evolve at a surprising rate (MRSA anyone?).OH! And just because it's the evolutionary "THEORY" does not mean there isn't any clout in it. It's rather unfortunate that scientific "theory" and the layman's "theory" can mean two drastically different things...remember, it's not the "evolutionary hypothesis"...
cycleordieDec 4, 2008
You wouldn't want a handle like that on a hide scraper, although that was my first thought. It could be a whorl but wood works just a good, and I'm not convinced they would waste the bone. Something went through the hole for sure. Likely wood?Then I thought.... the worlds first pocket pussy
cycleordieDec 4, 2008
The hole goes all the way through, so it wouldn't work as a handle for the spindle.
cycleordieDec 4, 2008
thank you barbie