Stone age people made hundreds of these...why?

one of the most intriguing artifacts from Paleolithic Europe are perforated batons they are found across Western and Central Europe and date to between 40,000 and maybe 15,000 years ago roughly rough dates an absolutely huge span of time roughly coinciding with the height of the last ice age for a long time archaeologists have wondered what they were used for were they symbolic maybe a symbol of power or were they practical a tool to help people survive in the last ice age let's find out this whole video began the other day when I got an email from one of you guys hi big fan of yours here I just wanted to let you know about a recent article on perforated batn I and many of us fans I'm sure would love a video of you exploring this possible solution to the perforated baton mystery cheers Victor you are absolutely right Victor it's a great topic so huge shout out to you for emailing me honestly I know a bunch of you guys do all the time and you're all a bunch of Legends rope making in the orig nation of Central Europe more than 35,000 years ago this new paper came out in January and it's a it's a really great study I had to email one of the the authors of the paper Professor Nicholas conard right away let's get to the bottom of this so where I am in Germany I can look out my window and look into the necer valley and for me it's super easy to imagine you know the woolly mammoths and woolly rhinos and the lions and just everything happening out there how people were getting their Stone artifacts making them how you would survive in the ice age or a warm period and all of those things to me I seem seem relevant it seems like part of our history in his paper co-authored with Vera rots Nicholas describes this really interesting battn excavated from holla Fels situated in southern Germany holfels is one of the most incredible Paleolithic sites in all of Europe probably all of the world in fact archaeologists have recovered female figurines musical instruments mysterious ious oblong artifacts whose uh use escapes us all sorts of incredible relics of Paleolithic life and Nicholas has been there for a lot of it Southern Germany in particular ...