Ivory doesn’t hold up as well against weathering as bone, making it a less suitable material for toolmaking, researchers said ...

What it is: Sculpture of a bird carved from mammoth ivory Where it is from: Hohle Fels cave, Baden-Württemberg, southwestern Germany When it was made: Around 40,000 years ago Related: Tumaco ...

(CNN)-- Archaeologists in Russia have discovered an "extraordinary" group of Stone Age artworks which appear to have been carefully buried in pits and covered with mammoth bones, researchers ...

What it tells us about the past: Archaeologists excavating Hohle Fels cave in southwestern Germany over two decades ago discovered three tiny figurines carved out of mammoth ivory. Dated to around ...