Jens Notroff<p>Your German word of the day is "<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Kommandolochstab" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kommandolochstab</span></a>" - but you probably won't need to bookmark it, a new study came up with a pretty reasonable explanation for those <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Paleolothic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Paleolothic</span></a>-<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Mesolithic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mesolithic</span></a> batons which, surprise, apparently are not simply <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RitualObjects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RitualObjects</span></a>™:</p><p><a href="https://www.science.org/content/article/puzzling-prehistoric-artifacts-served-practical-purpose-ropemaking" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">science.org/content/article/pu</span><span class="invisible">zzling-prehistoric-artifacts-served-practical-purpose-ropemaking</span></a> by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@spoke32" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>spoke32</span></a></span> via Science</p>