The ancient mammoth ivory is excavated from the permafrost of the Siberian tundra, which the woolly mammoth inhabited for more than 100,000 years. The ivory can take on coloration from minerals that leech into the tusks while buried. ![]() Because the tusks were buried in frozen ground they are preserved so that even though they are approximately 10,000 to 100,000 years old they are still the original organic material. Though ancient, woolly mammoth ivory is not petrified. ![]() This ancient ivory has been buried in permafrost and preserved since the end of the last ice age when the mammoths went extinct. Woolly mammoth tusk ivory is one of the ‘fossilized’ or ‘mineralized’ ivories that have been the foundation of my artwork for over 30 years.
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