Is anyone aware of mammoth fossil occurrences in archaeological context?
More precisely, I'm referring to cases of graves belonging to cultures that did not co-exist with mammoths. Does anyone know of late Neolithic or Bronze Age graves that contain mammoth bones or teeth?
This would imply that the fossils were found by Neolithic or Bronze Age people and had some meaning to them (either functional or spiritual), and were buried with some people of their society.
Some people put teeth from bronze or gold .I think the age of these materials depend on chemical structure .the best material were used in medicine as biomareial stainless steel with no.116 and other number as alloys material not one materials because of many physical properties can obtained in it.
Kind regard.
Qusay Kh. Al_Dulamey
Spanish Bell Beaker and El Argar people crafted objects from mammoth ivory, often found in funerary context (e.g. V-perforated buttons), try publications by e.g. Juan Antonio López Padilla.
Dr. Qusay Kh. Al-Dulamey , thank you for your response, but I was not thinking on human teeth made of mammoth ivory or bone (although, I must admit, that would be a very interesting find indeed!). I was referring to fossil bones found in graves of people that lived long after the mammoths were extinct.
Kinga Winnicka thanks a lot for the response!
I am also interested in mentions of non-processed fossil specimens found in graves, but finds of ivory objects in cultures from areas where fossil mammoths are not that common are also very useful!
Thank you very much indeed!
Dear Stefan,
as I know, Bronze Age Argar V-perforated buttons are or other ivory objects from Chalcolithic Iberia are from elephant not mammoths. For Chalcolithic objects, see Thomas Schuhmacher papers like this:
Conference Paper Ivory Exchange Networks in the Chalcolithic of the Western M...
or Claudia Pau (Iberian and Sardinian too):
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Claudia_Pau/research
But at Camino de las Yeseras in Madrid in Bell Beaker period there are one or two objects made from mammoth. See papers from Corina Liesau von Lettow-Vorbeck
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Corina_Liesau_Von_Lettow-Vorbeck
Yours
Nacho
Near Heidelberg in SW-Germany a Late Bronze Age burial was found which contained a fossile shark toooth.
Here it's the paper of Camino de las Yeseras talking about this topic:
Conference Paper Some prestige goods as evidence of interregional interaction...
Nacho
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