Description:

North America, Pliocene to Pleistocene, ca. 100,000 to 20,000 years old. A creamy marbled white, black, blue, and grey, fully fossilized tip of a mammoth tusk. The side gives us an idea of the tusk's growth rings, with each ring representing a single year in the mammoth's life (thick rings mean that the mammoth had a good diet that year, with little hunger). A tusk of this size comes from deep within the Pleistocene period, 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 the tusk - of which this is just a small component - and its partner rising in an upward curve from their jaw. These tusks could be up to six feet long! Imagine the strength the animal's neck must have posssessed just to hold up their massive weight. Size: 2.35" W x 7.45" H (6 cm x 18.9 cm); 9.05" H (23 cm) on included custom stand.

Provenance: private Newport Beach, California, USA collection

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  • Condition: Repaired from approximately four pieces. Repairs are well done and unobtrusive. Small loss from the tip and the lower end is not smooth. This is only the tip of a full tusk.

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