Awl blank

This awl blank with a pointed tip is an unfinished product, made of a wolf metapody (one of the bones of a limb). The tool handle has a joint, which could serve as a palm rest while using the tool. The sharp end was worked with a flint tool, most likely with a burin. After its shaping, the working part was smoothed and polished. Similar tools for piercing, making holes and depressions of various kinds are often found on sites, but they are usually broken. Not-broken tools are rare finds. Such tools as bone awls, punctures, screwdrivers, etc are thought to have been used in leather and wood objects production, or piercing something soft. Similar tools made of flint have also been found. They could be used when working with harder materials - bone, tusk, wood. This is a common working tool that has survived until the present day in a slightly modified form– nowadays the awl tips are made of metal. Its functional purpose: a tool for making holes in soft materials. This is a rare tool from the Upper Paleolithic period in Eurasia.