Mammoth ivory, like modern elephant ivory, is durable and doesn't splinter easily, and so makes a good spear for hunting.

In order to protect dwindling elephant populations, the international trade in ivory was banned in 1990. Given the fact that the trade in extinct mammoth ivory remained legal, however, some people ...

Many countries have stringent controls on the trade of elephant ivory. The sale of mammoth ivory, sourced primarily from long-extinct species, however, remains unregulated. But it’s a ...

"The miniature ivory pieces from Medzhibozh A ... Zaskalnaya V (Crimea), we documented a pointed fragment made from mammoth ivory." He believes that the tools were made from ivory due to a lack ...

However, a new study has warned the sale of mammoth tusks is an unregulated aspect of the ivory trade that needs to be addressed. The species fall outside of the regulation of the Convention on ...

The world’s oldest modified mammoth ivory pieces may have been used by children to mimic the tools of their parents, or possibly as teaching aids to help them produce utensils of their own.

One material, though, is more rarefied than all of these combined, and it’s exclusively on offer on The Vault: mammoth ivory between 8,000 and 30,000 years old. These tusks were preserved in ...

Along with discovering pieces of animal bone, archaeologists uncovered mammoth ivory, which has a slightly different composition than bone and comes from the animal’s tusks. Some of the ...