Whalebone
🔆 World’s Oldest Whalebone Industry Discovered
✅ Researchers studied 173 whalebone tools from Magdalenian caves near the Bay of Biscay.
✅ Late Paleolithic people used bones from at least five large whale species to craft tools.
✅ Toolmaking flourished between 17,500 and 16,000 years ago.
✅ No whaling technology found; likely people scavenged stranded whales and extracted oil and baleen.
✅ This discovery rewrites understanding of early human use of marine resources.
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