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3. Interesting. The first thing that comes to mind here is that served as a cutting board of sorts

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Wed Dec 16, 2020, 09:11 PM

Dec 2020

Those look like portion marks. I get that they we "dyed" with ochre pigment, but what was cut? Maybe those are simply stained as byproduct.

Not trying to be a doubter or downer, but I would be more inclined to think abstract thought if the lines were more than a right handed series of slices across bone.

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