In case you wanted to see pictures of those bone daggers.
In case you wanted to see pictures of those bone daggers. They're kind of elaborate and artistic. There's other pics in the link comparing the cassowary and human daggers.
"We conclude," the researchers wrote, "by suggesting that people in the Sepik region of New Guinea engineered human bone daggers to withstand breakage, and that their prevailing motivation was to preserve intact the embodiment of symbolic strength and social prestige, an outcome that agrees well with the predictions of signalling theory."
Heh.
https://www.sciencealert.com/human-thigh-bones-best-bone-daggers-papua-new-guinea-sipek
https://www.sciencealert.com/human-thigh-bones-best-bone-daggers-papua-new-guinea-sipek
"We conclude," the researchers wrote, "by suggesting that people in the Sepik region of New Guinea engineered human bone daggers to withstand breakage, and that their prevailing motivation was to preserve intact the embodiment of symbolic strength and social prestige, an outcome that agrees well with the predictions of signalling theory."
Heh.
https://www.sciencealert.com/human-thigh-bones-best-bone-daggers-papua-new-guinea-sipek
https://www.sciencealert.com/human-thigh-bones-best-bone-daggers-papua-new-guinea-sipek
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