broken pieces of ivory that might change how we think about early humans. The fragments—24 in total—came from the tusks of a long-extinct mammoth species. Most were unremarkable at first glance.

The little mammoth is made out of the tusk from a real woolly mammoth that died eons ago. Although carved recently, the piece of ivory with its striking amber eyes has the feel of something ancient.

Li shows me a small horse statuette and an ancient goddess fashioned from a piece of mammoth tusk -- an ivory substitute excavated from the Siberian permafrost. "When we made carvings for export ...

What it is: A lifelike figurine of a Neolithic woman carved out of the ivory core of a mammoth tusk. Where it was found: Inside the Grotte du Pape ("Pope's Cave") in Brassempouy, a village in ...

Mammoth ivory has steadily gained popularity since ... To identify the origin of a piece of tusk or carved sculpture, dealers and vendors have to resort to a photocopier or scanner and take ...

Samples of elephant and mammoth ivory utilized in the study – although complete tusks of the two materials may differ in appearance, such is not the case with small or carved pieces In lab tests ...

The artefact consists of a flattened stick of ivory split from a mammoth tusk. It is around 21 centimetres long, with four holes with spiral grooves carved in a row along one end. “To me it ...

Ancient hunters killed woolly mammoths for their meat. Today in Russia’s Arctic the search is on for their valuable tusks. 15 min read This story appears in the April 2013 issue of National ...

A new way of quickly distinguishing between illegal elephant ivory and legal mammoth tusk ivory could prove ... once specimens have become worked or carved. In this new study, scientists from ...

Li shows me a small horse statuette and an ancient goddess fashioned from a piece of mammoth tusk -- an ivory substitute excavated from the Siberian permafrost. "When we made carvings for export ...