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LOT 2849
Fossil Adult Woolly Mammoth Tusk Section
DEVENSIAN PERIOD, 110,000-12,000 YEARS B.P.
31 1/8 in. (5.46 kg, 79 cm).
A large, curving section of Mammuthus primigenius tusk, showing the internal layering; stabilised. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the North Sea.
Acquired from Milton Keynes Geological Society in 1999.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
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The mammoth lineage branched from the Asian elephant around 6 million years ago, and later on the Woolly Mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, evolved in eastern Siberia. Woolly mammoths, being slightly smaller than living African elephants, were foragers and ate grass, as well as small, nutritious flowering plants that flourished in the environment where they lived. They may also have used their curved tusks to dig through snow and eat plants that other foragers couldn't get to.
