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THBFossilized Woolly Mammoth Mandible Section w/ Tooth
Lot 88a
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
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Features classical antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art from cultures encompassing the globe. Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Etruscan, Near Eastern, Asian, Pre-Columbian, Native American, African / Tribal, Oceanic, Spanish Colonial, Russian, Fine Art, so much more! All legally acquired, legal to sell. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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North America or Siberia, late Pleistocene Epoch, ca. 129,000 to 11,700 years ago. A beautiful section of a mandible from an adult Woolly Mammoth (Mammathus primigenius) showing lustrous brown and russet hues as a result of the fossilization process. The crescent-shaped jaw fragment features a strong design that was efficient at pulverizing vegetal matter at an astonishing rate as well as one remaining tooth with several horizontal ridges that facilitated this process. The original chemicals of the teeth have been replaced in the fossilization process with quartz (silica) and other minerals, creating a rich, deep brown color with some ocher yellow highlights. Size: 7.25" W x 14.75" H (18.4 cm x 37.5 cm); 16.5" H (41.9 cm) on included custom stand.
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. This jawbone comes from deep within the Pleistocene, when the northern hemisphere was dominated by massive ice sheets drained by enormous glacial rivers and lakes. Imagine finding a jawbone like this along the banks of a river, rising from the ground. The name mammoth comes from a Siberian word used to describe the tusks found there by native people, like the Khanty of the Irtysh River basin, and traded to Europe and China. Their occasional finds of massive tusks and even preserved mammoth bodies in the permafrost - often eroding out of the sides of riverbanks - led to their folkloric belief that mammoths were like huge rodents, dwelling underground, dying when they accidentally surfaced. With the invention of science as a discipline, massive fossils like this one continued to capture imaginations all over the world. For example, Thomas Jefferson, who was fascinated by paleontology, is credited with introducing the use of the word mammoth as an adjective to describe something very large.
Provenance: ex-private Hagar collection, Wildwood, Missouri, USA
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#159355This is a section of a larger Mammoth mandible. Repaired from several large pieces, with chips and light adhesive residue along break lines. Tooth reinserted into opening. A few stable hairline fissures to base and peripheries, with light encrustations, and expected ossification commensurate with age. Great patina throughout.Condition
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