Video of Mammoth pendant 11 gram "Tusk"

Video of pendant sphere from Mammoth ivory - 16 mm in diameter

Monday, March 5, 2007

Woolly Mammoth carving ivory

That's one from my current eBay auctions. More of them possible find here.
A gigantic is any of an amount of an extinct genus of elephant, frequently with lengthy curving tusks and, in northern species, a coating of lengthy hair. They lived during the Pleistocene epoch from 1. 6 million years ago to around 3,500 years ago. The language gigantic comes from the Russian ìàìîíò ("mamont. Mammoth corpse have been establish in Europe, Africa, Asia, and North America. They are believed to get earlier evolved in North Africa about 4. 8 million years ago, where bones of Mammuthus africanavus have been establish in Chad, Libya, Morocco and Tunisia. Despite their African descent, they are in fact more intimately related to the contemporary Asian Elephant than either of the two African elephants. The popular root of both mammoths and Asian elephants divide from the cable of African elephants about 6 - 7. 3 million years ago. The Asian elephants and mammoths diverged about half a million years subsequently (5. 5 - 6. 3 million years ago.