Stick of command

Stick of command , or stick bored , is the name given by archeologists to a prehistoric artefact whose function remains dubious. The term stick of command is a generic term which recovers several varieties of objects, but it presupposes a particular function; the term stick bored is a more recent term, and described a form rather than a hypothetical function. __TOC

Description

The bored stick is made of wood of cervidé with a round hole at an end, and is often engraved abstract or animalist reasons. Sticks were found on European sites of the Paléolithique superior, since the Aurignacien until the Magdalénien.

The archeologists thought initially that the goal of the bored stick was to symbolize the power or a statute, from where his name starting stick of command . Other possible interpretations are: