I don't see evidence that this was ever alive. It looks like a tool -- a baton, perhaps, for knapping. Have you posted this on the Native American Artifacts forum?
No i haven't since I found it in Denmark. The thing has some sort of core, and it looks like it has been attached to some sort of animal see picture 3 and 4.
Ok, i have also thought about the surface texture. looks a bit funny. I think i am going to look up an geologist or an paleontologist to get some answers, thanks for the interest.
The key is in image #1. Tooth material (dentin) does not produce conchoidal and step fractures like this rock exhibits. The material is massive rather than laminated like a sperm whale's tooth. This rock has been battered at the broad end from a number of directions . . . as a knapping baton might be.
Never been to Denmark... But i have used english flint and maybe this is a nodule of flint. Since it isn't directly out of the cliffs or ground, while it was in the water it could have absorbed other minerals and material that stained it up pretty good. Nodules and concretions can give an illusion and appearance of being all sort of things
I see what you mean Harry, that could well be an answer. To padirtdigger, i have read on the internet that a professor from Denmark said exactly the same as you, he also said that it could be a fungus called kisel in Danish. i don't know what it is called in English
Yeah sorry about not fully explaining that... as stated though, it is the art of chipping a stone into a usable too, be it a knife, spear, projectile point and even flake blades like the Hopewell Culture would have done. To knap is to be able to control chipping/flaking/breaking of a rock into something usable.... I've heard many explanations of it!!
Ha! Google translate. I spent several months in Denmark, Sweden and Norway years ago but don't remember anything of the language other than 'tak' meaning 'thanks', alas. The Danes were particularly kind- and spoke excellent English.
Ok, you should come back to Denmark it has only gotten better over the years, despite of the terror attack that hit Copenhagen a few days ago. I hope people will wake up and realize that we're all the same people inside. And that people don't let there religions rule there life's.