Mammoth Bone

Mammoth bone from the North Sea.

Ice Age.

Mammoth species lived from the Miocene period (around 6.2 million years ago) into the Holocene until about 4 thousand years ago and, at various times, inhabited Africa, Asia, Europe and North America.

This bone is from a woolly mammoth which evolved 700-400,000 years ago in Siberia where the Evenk people who lived there believed they were responsible for the creation of the world, by digging up the land from the ocean floor with their tusks.

4.5 x 1.4cm approx