Until now, the earliest known ivory artifacts came from the Upper Paleolithic, between 50,000 and 10,000 years ago. A few ...

Any fossils found in that bed are at least 160,000 years old, says Zazula. One morning while searching the bed, the team spotted what they had been looking for. "We saw just a sliver of this mammoth ...

Carved out of mammoth ivory, the 40,000-year-old figurine clearly represents a woman, with ballooning breasts and elaborately carved genitalia. The head, arms and legs are merely suggested.

According to ArchaeologyMag, archaeologists have uncovered ivory tools in Ukraine dating back 400,000 years, dramatically shifting our understanding of early hominin technology. Excavated at the ...