What's So Special About the Quartz Tip?

quartz tip has been interpreted as possibly useful for making carvings or markings. Slashes carved into the long sides of the handle add up to a total of a hundred and 68 parallel lines, arranged into tight groupings of different numbers in three lengthwise columns. The museum that houses it, they say they don't know what kind of animal it's from. It clearly did belong to some kind of mammal. This is definitely worth looking up a picture of.