Rope is one of the most valuable items to have in the wilderness, and this ancient method of creating it produces very good results. Even today some commercially made ropes are wound with the same ...

A mammoth ivory tool unearthed in central Europe has offered a peek at how teamwork enabled Stone Age folks to make thick, sturdy ropes. Excavations and sediment screening at southwestern Germany’s ...

The Hohle Fels baton, made from 15 pieces of ivory unearthed in 2015. H. Jensen, University of Tübingen A roughly 35,000-year-old woolly mammoth tusk found in 2015 was used by early humans as a tool ...

A 37,000-year-old piece of mammoth ivory with four carved holes found in a cave in Germany was a tool for making ropes, researchers have concluded, not an artwork as previously thought. “You can make ...