Archaeologists have unearthed mysterious 400,000-year-old artifacts made from mammoth tusks that may be the oldest human-made ivory objects ever found. They describe their findings in a recent ...

He believes that the tools were made from ivory due to a lack of quality stone ... These crudely fashioned items “may represent imitative behavior, possibly by children, mimicking adult knapping ...

as well as items related to several feature films Ivory made with screenwriter Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, and producer and Ivory’s longtime partner, Ismail Merchant. “You can see he saved ...

C.B. | Redwood City, California It has no intrinsic value, but its cultural uses make ivory highly ... increasing demand for ivory piano keys, billiard balls and luxury items led to the ...

Stepanchuk and his colleague Oleksandr Naumenko came across 24 small fragments of mammoth ivory alongside other artifacts made of flint and quartz. Detailed morphological analyses of these items ...