Large Fossilized Mammoth Tooth w/ Mandible Section

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May 20, 2021

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• Lot Description
  New World, present day Alaska, or Central Asia, Siberia, Pleistocene (Ice Age), ca. 100,000 to 20,000 years old. A massive fossilized molar tooth and bone from the prehistoric woolly mammoth (Mammathus primigenius). The tooth demonstrates the efficiency these animals had when it came to pulverizing vegetal matter. The large crown has horizontal ridges across the top for grinding. The tooth roots are lengthy and retain a portion of the jawbone the tooth was anchored to. The bone and tooth have developed lustrous black, brown and gray hues as a result of the fossilization process where the original chemical compositions have been replaced by quartz and other minerals. The size demonstrates the enormous size of these prehistoric animals! Size: 9" L x 4" W x 7.75" H (22.9 cm x 10.2 cm x 19.7 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 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 tooth 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-Stein collection, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, USA, acquired prior to 2010
  
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  Condition

  Stable cracks and fissures from fossilization process. Chis and losses to root. All is coated in a lacquer fixative to preserve the tooth. Some cloudiness on surface resulting from lacquer.
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