Mammoth Engraving

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Emma Groeneveld
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published on 09 January 2018
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Cast of an engraving of a woolly mammoth on mammoth ivory made by early modern humans (Homo sapiens) at the rock shelter of La Madeleine, France, between c. 17,000- c. 11,000 years ago. It resides at the Collection de Paleontologie du Museum national d'Histoire naturelle in Paris, France, but was on loan at the Australian Museum in Sydney when this picture was taken in December 2017. The info provided there regarding this engraving was the following:

'While exploring the rock shelter of La Madeleine in the 1860s, prehistorian Eduoard Lartet found this mammoth ivory plaque shattered in five pieces. Upon placing the pieces back together, he noticed an engraving of a mammoth. It was one of the first artifacts to confirm that humans and mammoths had lived together during prehistory.

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Emma Groeneveld
Emma Groeneveld studied History & Ancient History, focusing on topics such as Herodotus and the juicy politics of ancient courts. Since the conclusion of her studies in 2015, she has been spending more and more time on her obsession with prehistory.

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