About Cattle Bone...

For millennial, animal bones have been used to make knife handles. Today, the most commonly used varietie is cattle bones.

Since ancient times, animal bones have been used to make tools and jewelry as well as art and religious artefacts. Early historic research has shown that even Homo erectus, the first upright ancestor of Homo sapiens, made tools from animal bones several hundred thousand years ago.

The earliest bone carvings made by Homo sapiens are more than 30,000 years old and were created out of mammoth ivory. One major reason for the use of animal bones to make tools and other objects was that suitable wood wasn't always available everywhere.