A collection of 400,000-year-old artifacts made from mammoth tusks may be the earliest evidence of ivory tool production ever found. Previously, the oldest evidence of ivory modification dates ...

The ivory is valuable to researchers, who use the tusks to track mammoth growth rates, seasonal eating and drinking patterns and migration trends based on the types of plants the animal was eating.

Woolly mammoths last roamed the Earth some 4,000 years ago, but their tusks—fashioned into sculptures, jewelry, and trinkets—have become hot commodities in China, where elephant ivory is now ...

Woolly mammoth fossils, abundant on rivers and beaches in Alaska’s Interior, are shaped into jewelry or etched with scrimshaw, then sold to collectors and retail shops.

And the same motif adorns ivory headpieces and bone needles at a 32,400 to 30,800-year-old site in Siberia. The Stajnia pendant is the oldest example so far of ivory decorated with dotted curves ...

A pendant carved from mammoth ivory is the oldest known ornate jewellery made by humans in Eurasia. The discovery is shaking up our understanding of the emergence of so-called symbolic behaviours ...

Woolly mammoth ivory preserved in permafrost in Yakutia reportedly makes up 80 percent of Russia's trade in what is largely an unregulated market worth tens of millions each year.

ALBANY, N.Y. — Nearly two tons of trinkets, statues and jewelry crafted from the tusks of at least 100 slaughtered elephants are heading for a rock crusher in New York City’s Central Park to ...