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LOT 0392
Natural History - Complete Ice Age Juvenile Mammoth Tusk
PLEISTOCENE PERIOD, 2.6 MILLION-11,700 YEARS B.P.
21 1/2 in. (2.29 kg total, 54 cm wide including stand).
A right-side 'fossil' tusk of the extinct Mammuthus Primigenius; ivory yellow-brown in colour and finely preserved with the typically marked curvature of this species; with custom-made display stand.
Provenance
From the Siberian Tundra.
From the private collection of Mr J S, Northamptonshire, UK.
Property of a Cambridgeshire gentleman.
Literature
See Lister & Bahn, Mammoths, for general information.
Footnotes
Mammoths were animals of the Ice Age; they co-existed with and were hunted by early man; Siberia is famed for discoveries of frozen mammoth carcasses (see 'Dima' and 'Lyuba' for examples) and for the hut circles where mammoth bones and tusks were used as building materials; tusks have been traded for at least 2,000 years and in modern times, Siberian natives still hunt for them and use the fossil ivory as raw material.
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LOT 0392
Natural History - Complete Ice Age Juvenile Mammoth Tusk
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,340
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