37,000 year old Mammoth tusk tools possibly used to craft rope

Researchers conclude that a 37,000-year-old mammoth ivory carved with four holes found in a German cave was a tool for making rope, not a work of art as previously thought. Ta.

“It's very easy to make rope, and the rope is very strong,” he says. Nicholas Conard at the University of Tübingen, Germany. “Of course, that doesn't mean that's the only possibility. But compared to saying it's a symbol of power or some kind of work of art, I think the rope hypothesis is a pretty good hypothesis. ”