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LOT 2670
Kalahari Desert Wind Stone Group [3]
2 3/8 - 2 5/8 in. (425 grams total, 60-66 mm).
Comprising three wind-rounded pebbles in hollowed out 'nests'; each with a hessian draw-ribbon pouch. [3, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the Kalahari Desert.
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
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Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Restrung using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius bone beads. 130 grams, 57 cm
London, UK, collection, 2000s.
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 were unable to reach.
