Excavators at a site near Leipzig 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.
'It seems to have been very fashionable at the time,' said Harald Staueble, senior archaeologist at Germany's Saxon State Archaeology Office.