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THBLarge Fossilized Mammoth Tibia Leg Bone
Lot 172
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Artemis Gallery
686 S Taylor Ave, Ste 106
Louisville, CO 80027
United States
Selling antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art online since 1993, Artemis Gallery specializes in Classical Antiquities (Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Near Eastern), Asian, Pre-Columbian, African / Tribal / Oceanographic art. Our extensive inventory includes pottery, stone, metal, wood, glass and textil...Read more
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North America, Alaska or Siberia, Pliocene to Pleistocene, ca. 100,000 to 20,000 years ago. A large, fossilized bone from the leg of a woolly mammoth, one of the most famous prehistoric animals! This is the tibia, the lower rear leg bone, and there is no mistaking this piece as anything other than mammoth, since no other terrestrial animals from this area and era were this large - and this bone truly gives a great perspective of these giant animals! This bone is excellent, with great anatomical details intact, including the tuberosity, the slight concave area just below the widest tip which held connective tissue and attached to the kneecap, and the anterior crest, a slightly grooved area that creates the shin. The narrower end, the medial malleolus, formed the outer ankle that attached to ligaments in the foot. The fossilized bone has developed a lovely deep and honey brown coloration and is an amazing addition to any collection! Size: 23" L x 7" W (58.4 cm x 17.8 cm)
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 bone comes from deep within the Pleistocene, when the northern hemisphere was dominated by massive ice sheets drained by enormous glacial rivers and lakes. 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: private Hagar collection, Wildwood, Missouri, USA
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Display stands not described as included/custom in the item description are for photography purposes only and will not be included with the item upon shipping.
#167913Drilled on one tip for mounting on a stand. Stable pressure fissures and abrasions from fossilization. Chips to both ends with some minor fill within gaps around the drilled hole. Great coloration throughout.Condition
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