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

Imagine you are taking a walk through rural Madison County, Mississippi, and stumble on a massive tusk that turns out to ...

Shared by Vadim N. Stepanchuk In western Ukraine, archaeologists uncovered mammoth ivory artifacts dating back around 400,000 years near Medzhybizh. These ivory pieces, showing signs of ...

This summer, Dalén plans to take a team to another location in the Old Crow River basin in search of more fossils to help them unravel this mystery. "If we can find some mammoth material at ...

The cavers reported the find to local archaeologists who were then led back into the cave. Mexico National Institute of Anthropology and History The summaries below were drafted with the help of ...

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 ...