It seems to be a CD tower.
Sometimes I see something with a function so specific but so briefly useful that it makes me wonder what archeologists some centuries from now are gonna guess it was for.
It seems to be a CD tower.
Yeah, make us millennials feel old, why don’t you :chomsky-yes-honey:
(I instantly identified this and I suspect most people my age would too)
This a ceremonial artifact used in the Great Lakes region of the former US during their numerous cheese rituals. It was used to grate enormous blocks of cheese, and the resulting grated cheese was used in various initiations and executions.
That is a ritual object, perhaps a shrine. Offerings of cloth and paper may have been hung on the “rungs”, or they may have represented a prayer placeholder like prayer beads. (Discovered in 2572 at the Tell Greenbriar Apartment excavation.)
