Mammoth fauna, Yakutia, Russia
Mammoth tusk
Mammuthus primigenius
The honeyed amber of bone, polished to a shine.
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- Epoch
- Pleistocene
- Age
- 10–40 thousand years
- Origin
- Yakutia, Russia
- Size
- 46 cm
- Classification
- Mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius)
- Habitat
- The mammoth steppe of Yakutia
- Ref.
- R–0312
This 46 cm tusk is defined by its warm honey-amber colour: in mood it is softer than the dark Yakutian specimens, and it visibly glows along the turns. By nature it is a modified incisor made of dentine, yet in this shade it is closer to a precious natural object than to a dry palaeontological find.
This tusk took a warm tone from the ground: honey-amber along its whole length, with golden shifts following the layers of dentine. The tip is fine and tapers to nothing — the animal did not wear it down on crusted snow and soil.
In life
The woolly mammoth of glacial Yakutia: herds moved across a dry cold prairie where the tundra lies today.