Description:

North America, Pleistocene epoch (Ice Age), ca. 35,000 years ago. A pair of dark brown mammoth tusk tips, with some streaks of grey and creamy beige coloration. They come displayed together on a custom stand. Size: 3" W x 29.5" H (7.6 cm x 74.9 cm); height on stand: 30" (76.2 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 Vaught Collection, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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  • Condition: Both pieces are fragments from larger tusks. Small cracks on surface, with expected wear. One tusk tip is duller than the other but seems to reflect the actual condition of the tusk when fossilized (rather than a later break).

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