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Whalebone game piece
Left: a board-game piece made from whalebone at the end of the 6th century CE, found in Gnistahögen near Uppsala (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).
Bengt Backlund/Rudolf Gustavsson
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