Whalebone Board-game Piece (IMAGE)

Uppsala University

Whalebone Board-game Piece

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Left: a board-game piece made from whalebone at the end of the 6th century CE, found in Gnistahögen near Uppsala, Sweden (photograph by Bengt Backlund, Uppland County Museum). Right: the bone structure of the gaming piece compared with reference bone from minke whale (photograph by Rudolf Gustavsson, Societas Archaeologica Upsaliensis, SAU).

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Bengt Backlund/Rudolf Gustavsson

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