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THBPrehistoric Human Butchered Bone of a Woolly Mammoth
Lot 148
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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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2018-10-11 10:00:00
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An important one-day auction featuring museum-worthy examples of classical antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art from cultures encompassing the globe. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
An important one-day auction featuring museum-worthy examples of classical antiquities, ancient and ethnographic art from cultures encompassing the globe. Artemis Gallery info@artemisgallery.com
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Butchered Mammuthus primigenius ulna bone; found in Rhine River, West Central Germany; Pleistocene, 150,000 to 20,000 years ago. Without question, one of the rarest Ice Age fossil bones you will ever encounter, this is a lower arm ulna limb bone from the Woolly Mammoth with Prehistoric (not Neolithic or Bronze Age) obvious human butchering evidence. The obvious stone knife cut marks on one end would have been a direct result of Neanderthal or Cro-Magnon hunting as Woolly Mammoths have not been alive since over 10,000 years in Western Europe, where this specimen was found. Size: 19" L x 10.5" W (48.3 cm x 26.7 cm)
It is an extraordinary major fossil limb bone with spectacular detail and fully preserved, dense end joint surfaces. What makes it a "crown jewel" specimen is the hand axe and flake knife cut marks on the end. This was likely first broken with a stone hand axe and then further cut open with a large, stone knife. The reason is that prehistoric Neanderthal and Cro-magnon humans would have highly prized the spongy bone marrow inside as a super high protein food source. A partially-ossified joint end on the opposing side, indicates this would have been a sub-adult mammoth, with more marrow and lesser density to its bones. A sub-adult mammoth would have also been slightly easier to kill than a full-grown animal. Juveniles are most often preyed upon by all predators, for this reason.
While younger period fossils that date to the Holocene Era (Neolithic and newer), showing human butchering, are far more abundant, specimens that are truly prehistoric in nature, showing early human butchering, are IMMEASURABLY MORE RARE! Perfect to exhibit with Primitive Man tools and artifacts since these beasts played such an important part in so many ways of the lives of Neanderthals and Cro-Magnons.
Provenance: private Florida, USA collection, acquired in 2007 from a private Dutch collection
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#139957Sealed for protection only. Original as found with no repair or restoration. Perfect undamaged preservation of human stone knife cut marks on end.Condition
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