This tool has wear pads where the thumb and index finger came into contact with it.  It appears to have been used much like a modern pool cue chalk by inserting a stick or bone and then rotating the tool.  The hole is wide on the outside and tapers to a point inside the tool.  I wonder if it could have been used to sharpen something like an antler tine.

 

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