This decorated mammoth ivory pendant is 41,500 years old ... About 51,000 years ago, a Neanderthal in what’s now Germany carved a geometric pattern into a piece of deer bone.

Decorated ivory 'pendant' carved from mammoth tusk is oldest example of ornate jewellery in Eurasia, archaeologists say. By Genelle Weule. ABC Science ...

A pendant carved from mammoth ivory is the oldest known ornate jewellery made by humans in Eurasia. The discovery is shaking up our understanding of the emergence of so-called symbolic behaviours ...

Carved into mammoth ivory - a hard, white material that some animals' teeth and tusks are made from - the pendant is decorated with puncture marks. "The decoration of the pendant included patterns ...

But because carved mammoth ivory looks so much like elephant ivory, it’s only logical to keep regulatory tabs on it. The proposal, she said, was a “valid effort to say, ‘There’s a problem ...

Archaeologist report that the 2008 excavations at Hohle Fels Cave in the Swabian Jura of southwestern Germany recovered a female figurine carved from mammoth ivory from the basal Aurignacian deposit.

What it is: Sculpture of a bird carved from mammoth ivory Where it is from: Hohle Fels cave, Baden-Württemberg, southwestern Germany When it was made: Around 40,000 years ago Related: Tumaco ...

Carved with stone tools out of mammoth ivory, the tiny head measures just 1.9 inches (4.8 centimeters) tall and 1 inch (2.4 cm) wide. The sculpture appears to represent a woman's face, ...