Human Usage
Shed antlers have been used by craftspeople since ancient times to make tools, weapons, ornaments, and toys. They are worn in traditional dances such as Yaqui deer dances and carried in the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance.
In the velvet stage, antlers of elk and deer have been used in Asia as a dietary supplement or alternative medicinal substance for more than 2,000 years.
In prehistoric times a large shed deer antler from a suitable species (e.g. red deer) was often cut down to its shaft and its lowest tine and used as a one-pointed pickax.
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