Selling elephant ivory—a hard white material from elephant tusks, for which elephants are often killed—is illegal. Selling ivory collected from the remains of extinct Mammoths, however, is—somehow—not ...

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 back ...

Ancient artifacts unearthed in Alaska revealed migrants from Asia might have come to the Americas via an inland route, and ...

Researchers say they have developed a new way to distinguish between legal mammoth ivory and illegal elephant ivory. Elephant ivory is often passed off as mammoth ivory when being imported. As the ...

Archaeologists excavating 400,000-year-old rock in western Ukraine have uncovered fragments of what could be the oldest human-made ivory objects ever found. These artefacts would have been too soft to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The weapon is around 10,000 years older than experts previously estimated. The conclusion comes after an international research ...

The boomerang exists in the popular imagination as a playful tool connected with the Aboriginals of Australia, but its oldest known example hails from a cave in southern Poland that was used as a ...

To save elephant populations from extinction, the international community banned the sale of their ivory — but selling mammoth ivory remains legal, and the two are difficult to tell apart, especially ...

A boomerang carved from a mammoth tusk is one of the oldest in the world, and it may be even older than archaeologists originally thought, according to a recent round of radiocarbon dating.

Illegal carved ivory (photograph by Bill Butcher, via U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service – Northeast Region) These episodes mark the first time there’s been public destruction of ivory in non-African ...

For example, mammoth tusks and ivories can be an excellent art collection for enhancing the home décor. Authentic woolly mammoth fossils are highly prized because of their fascinating history. Alaskan ...

Until now it was thought that writing developed in Mesopotamia around 3,000 BCE, followed by hieroglyphics in Egypt and later in China and Mesoamerica. "The Stone Age sign sequences are an early ...