Your German word of the day is "#Kommandolochstab" - but you probably won't need to bookmark it, a new study came up with a pretty reasonable explanation for those #Paleolothic-#Mesolithic batons which, surprise, apparently are not simply #RitualObjects™:

https://www.science.org/content/article/puzzling-prehistoric-artifacts-served-practical-purpose-ropemaking by @spoke32 via Science