A tool made from shaping human or animal bone and used by prehistoric people as tools as well as to create cave paintings such as hand stencils. Hollowed bones were also shaped into spear tips, hooks, clubs and pipes that were used to blow pigment onto the rock surface.
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Plate Camera
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