Like other similar artifacts, it has been interpreted as being a device for making rope. Grooves around each hole would have held plant fibres in place. The existence of these tools at different locations indicates rope-making had already become an important human activity by the Upper Paleolithic age.
This artifact and others like it are believed to be used for making rope. The grooves around each hole would have held plant fibers in place, suggesting that rope-making was an important activity by the Upper Paleolithic people.