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

Along with discovering pieces of animal bone, archaeologists uncovered mammoth ivory, which has a slightly different composition than bone and comes from the animal’s tusks. Some of the ...

For example, at the Neanderthal site of Zaskalnaya V (Crimea), we documented a pointed fragment made from mammoth ivory." The researchers suggest that the creation of the Medzhibozh ivory ...

Around 400,000 years ago, prehistoric people living in western Ukraine found remains of Mammuthus trogontherii, or steppe mammoths. The Paleolithic titans were just one animal that made survival ...