I have no idea how the teeth were really obtained -
the pun was just too good to resist.
Excavators at a site near Leipzig (map) uncovered more than a hundred dog teeth arranged close together in a grave dated to between 2,500 and 2,200 B.C.
According to archaeologist Susanne Friederich, the teeth were likely decorations for the outer flap of a handbag.
"Over
the years the leather or fabric disappeared, and all that's left is the
teeth. They're all pointing in the same direction, so it looks a lot
like a modern handbag flap," said Friederich, of the Sachsen-Anhalt
State Archaeology and Preservation Office. *
