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<p>[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 4462471, member: 8267"]Such perforated stones are found in many parts of the world, with no clear understanding of their original use. They are sometimes described as net weights, or mace heads, or weights for digging sticks. I have found a brief reference by Cyril Hromnik to ones in South Africa being called !kwe stones. Although observed among San people, he believed they were much older artifacts that were being repurposed.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/3888195" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/3888195" rel="nofollow">https://www.jstor.org/stable/3888195</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="2manybooks, post: 4462471, member: 8267"]Such perforated stones are found in many parts of the world, with no clear understanding of their original use. They are sometimes described as net weights, or mace heads, or weights for digging sticks. I have found a brief reference by Cyril Hromnik to ones in South Africa being called !kwe stones. Although observed among San people, he believed they were much older artifacts that were being repurposed. [URL]https://www.jstor.org/stable/3888195[/URL][/QUOTE]
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