Found in Ukraine, the fragments show signs of human manipulation—though researchers still haven't ruled out the possibility ...

Yet at Medzhibozh A, Stepanchuk and his colleague Oleksandr Naumenko came across 24 small fragments of mammoth ivory alongside other artifacts made of flint and quartz. Detailed morphological analyses ...

Along with discovering pieces of animal bone, archaeologists uncovered mammoth ivory ... If so, these are (artifacts) about tools, not tools themselves,” Stepanchuk said. The earliest-known ...