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Their ancestors had carved a civilization out of the ice with tools made from whalebone and meteorite fragments.
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Ken Harbaugh,
The Atlantic,
9 Feb. 2026
By 1974, though, many women had already discarded those notions as instruments of domination, psychic equivalents of the whalebone corset.
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James Marcus,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
The goal was to snag as many whales as possible, in pursuit of their highly valuable whale oil (extracted from blubber), sperm oil, and whalebone.
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Byallie Garfinkle,
Fortune,
8 July 2024
Since Icelanders usually processed whales on the shoreline, most whalebones were lost to the ocean, so their use is likely underrepresented in the archaeological record.
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Andrew Chapman,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 May 2024
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Ken Harbaugh,
The Atlantic,
9 Feb. 2026
By 1974, though, many women had already discarded those notions as instruments of domination, psychic equivalents of the whalebone corset.
—
James Marcus,
New Yorker,
3 Nov. 2025
The goal was to snag as many whales as possible, in pursuit of their highly valuable whale oil (extracted from blubber), sperm oil, and whalebone.
—
Byallie Garfinkle,
Fortune,
8 July 2024
Since Icelanders usually processed whales on the shoreline, most whalebones were lost to the ocean, so their use is likely underrepresented in the archaeological record.
—
Andrew Chapman,
Smithsonian Magazine,
23 May 2024
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“Whalebone.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whalebone. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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