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Sheep Rock Shelter carved bone-handled knife
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Sheep Rock Shelter carved bone-handled knife.

Credit: The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Archaeology

This extraordinary bone-handled knife, which dates to ca. 1350 AD, was recovered from an unusually dry soil layer at the Sheep Rock Shelter site in Huntingdon County. It has a finely chipped black chert blade and a handle made from a section of deer rib, that was carved with stone tools. The meaning of inscribed designs and symbols is unknown.

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