So, the bone was not a tool or a ritual object. Instead ... cattle bones with replications of ancient tools, such as flint knives and blades from the middle Paleolithic period.

The human bone was found ... a ceremonial knife and fragments of 40 pottery vessels, which were also thought to have been likely intentionally broken as part of ritual events.

Archaeologists discovered the bone among other skeletal remains, and it might have been used in fertility or good luck rituals ... polar bear penis bones for knife hilts. These practices point ...

One in Silchester is only about 30 miles away, for example, and has dogs, ravens and a carved knife handle ... and what kinds of rituals they might have been up to. Was the bone deposit Roman ...

Examination of the edges of each tooth found they had been used to pierce, cut and scrape flesh and bone ... or ritual — including ritualised combat. For example, a fighting knife found ...

Scientists posit that the cave was a sacred location in which ritual blood sacrifices were ... Michele Bleuze, a bioarchaeologist who studied the bone fragments, noted a particularly grisly ...

Nine cut marks on a fossilized shin bone suggest that ancient human relatives ... that it was eaten for nutrition as opposed to for a ritual.” Study coauthor Michael Pante, a paleoanthropologist ...

A first-of-its-kind painted dog penis bone has been discovered in a Roman quarry shaft in Surrey, an artefact that archaeologists suspect was used in a long-lost fertility ritual. The 13ft deep ...

Purely for aesthetics, some knife makers use bone inlays screwed onto steel handles. These are treated to give long-lasting beautiful colours. Micarta This is a composite material made from layers ...

At an ancient Roman quarry in Surrey, England, an oddly colored bone suggests it may have been used in a fertility ritual, researchers said. elliot via Unsplash Ahead of a development project at ...