Lot 205
North America, Alaska, Late Pleistocene epoch (Ice Age), ca. 35,000 to 10,000 years ago. Wow! What a gorgeous example of the fossilized tip of a mammoth tusk, creamy white and brown with hints of a bluish grey along its length. The very tip is a dark brown color. Imagine encountering this animal on an Ice Age steppe, towering up to 13 feet at the shoulder and weighing up to 12 tons, with this tusk and its partner rising in an upward curve from their jaw. Imagine the strength the animal's neck must have had just to hold up these massive teeth! The tip Size: 24" L x 2.625" W (61 cm x 6.7 cm)
While mammoths survived until ca. 5600 years ago on remote Alaskan islands, those animals had begun to shrink in size as the climate warmed from the end of the Ice Age ca. 10,000 years ago. A tusk of this size comes from deep within the Pleistocene, when the northern hemisphere was dominated by massive ice sheets drained by enormous glacial rivers and lakes. Imagine encountering this animal on an Ice Age steppe, towering up to 13 feet at the shoulder and weighing up to 12 tons, with this tusk and its partner rising in an upward curve from their jaw. Imagine the strength the animal's neck must have had just to hold up these massive teeth!
Provenance: private Dayton, Maryland, USA collection, collected 1990s to 2000s
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#195024
- Condition: Broken from a larger tusk, but the tip is complete. Stabilized as is normal with minor areas of fill.
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