Archaeologists Find 13,000-Year-Old Engraved Mammoth Tusk in Siberia

Sci-News.com ^ | September 25, 2020 | Enrico de Lazaro

[SunkenCiv]

The 13,000-year-old partial tusk of an adult mammoth found in western Siberia has four images of two-humped camels engraved on it.

The artifact, which measures about 70 cm (27.6 inches) in length and 10 cm (3.9 inches) in diameter, is a frontal fragment of a 1.5-m- (59-inch-) long tusk from a 35 to 40-year-old male mammoth...

The researchers radiocarbon-dated the artifact to about 13,000 years ago and spotted several incisions on it...

"All four animals (labeled as #1, 2, 3 and 4 in the image above) were executed in the same style, using similar techniques and tools... The main stylistic feature of these images is that they combine the figures' outlines with a series of short transverse cuts on the inner side. In some places, the outline is missing and the short cuts themselves serve as the contour."

"All camels are depicted with only two legs. The lower ends of the foot contours, in most cases, are not connected."

"The camels have patches of thick fur sticking out from the upper parts of their forelegs, bellies, under their necks, at the base of the humps (between the front hump and the neck, the back hump and the croup) and on their foreheads. The heads are all small and angular."

[SunkenCiv]

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[OldCorps]

My name is Bill Clinton and I did not hump those camels! Not a single time. These allegations are false! Now I’ve got to go back and do the work of the uhmerican peeple!

[Deplorable American1776]

Interesting article. It’s amazing about what prehistoric things you can bfind...

[SunkenCiv]

Camels. One-humped are actually Dromedaries.

[SunkenCiv]

...take them down ice, they're just lookin' for some tusks.

[SunkenCiv]

The carton with the side of slaw was big as a jacuzzi.

[SunkenCiv]

The domestication of dogma is going well. :^)

[SunkenCiv]

:^) Smoke 'em if ya go 'em.

[Mastador1]

Now try not to think of the opening of The Flintstones going to the drive in for a slab a ribs that covered the roof of the ‘car’. : )

[SunkenCiv]

I haven't been able to *stop* thinkin' about it for the past 55 years! ;^).

[Hiddigeigei]

Thank you for the interesting article.

[DannyTN]

Leave the Mammoth’s alone.

Engraved tusks are no more crazier than the tattoo and piercing mania of the current age.

[DannyTN]

That is a mammoth list. Well done!!

[SunkenCiv]

I'd tried to pachy lot in there.

[sauropod]

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[itsahoot]

The pre-ancient world was likely filled with art, objects of art, and artistically inspired objects for everyday use, all of which have, sadly, been lost due to their having been rendered out of and upon perishable materials.

I saw no pictures or labels 1,2,3,4 in that group of pictures. Are they invisible or something?

[eldoradude]

God help me but the top tusk on the far right has what looks like a crude drawing of caveman Homer Simpson.

[Red Badger]

I see a Bactrian Camel and a mammoth...................

[Red Badger]

Was he in Alabama?

Where the Tusk-a-loosa?.................

[dfwgator]

When I see the word "Tusk" of think of Stevie Nicks and a baton....