While our species was spreading across Eurasia and briefly sharing a continent with the last of the Neanderthals, someone took the time to carefully shape an oval pendant out of mammoth ivory, then ...
About 41,500 years ago, a Stone Age artist in Europe carved an oval-shaped object covered in dots out of the tusk of a woolly mammoth. Archaeologists have directly dated fragments of bone decorated ...
An intricately decorated ivory pendant made from mammoth bone has been discovered in Poland, and may be the oldest example of ornate jewellery found in Eurasia yet. The pendant dates back around ...
Two decorated pendants — one ivory and the other terracotta — were found during the archaeological excavation under way near Vembakottai. The first phase of excavation, being undertaken by Tamil Nadu ...
Upon their dispersals in Central and Western Europe by around 42,000 years ago, groups of Homo sapiens started to manipulate mammoth tusks for the production of pendants and mobiliary objects, like ...
A pendant carved from mammoth ivory is the oldest known ornate jewellery made by humans in Eurasia. The discovery is shaking up our understanding of the emergence of so-called symbolic behaviours in ...
In a time when ivory poaching has gotten so bad that it threatens to wipe out several animal species, a young Dutch designer is creating “egalitarian jewelry” made of our very own ivory – teeth. Lucie ...
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