Natural History - 'North Sea' Fossil Woolly Mammoth Tooth

PLEISTOCENE PERIOD, 2.6 MILLION-11,700 YEARS B.P.

7 1/2 in. (2.23 kg, 19 cm).

Showing wear in life to biting surfaces, from Mammuthus primigenius. [3, No Reserve]

Provenance

Dredged from the North Sea, probably from Brown Bank, Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, UK.
Previously acquired on the UK art market before 2000.
Property of a Kent, UK, collector.

Literature

See Lister & Bahn, Mammoths, for general information (a useful introduction).

Footnotes

Mammoths were animals of the Ice Age; they co-existed with and were hunted by early man. The North Sea basin is a drowned landscape, flooded after the end of the last Ice Age. Fishing trawlers occasionally bring up bones and relics from when the area was inhabited as dry land.

CONDITION

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