Selling elephant ivory—a hard white material from elephant tusks, for which elephants are often killed—is illegal. Selling ivory collected from the remains of extinct Mammoths, however, is—somehow—not ...

Ancient artifacts unearthed in Alaska revealed migrants from Asia might have come to the Americas via an inland route, and ...

A collection of 400,000-year-old artifacts made from mammoth tusks may be the earliest evidence of ivory tool production ever found. Previously, the oldest evidence of ivory modification dates back ...

Archaeologists uncover 13,700-year-old mammoth ivory rods in Alaska, linking early carving traditions to Clovis culture ...

Cara Tabachnick is a news editor at CBSNews.com. Cara began her career on the crime beat at Newsday. She has written for Marie Claire, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal. She reports on ...

Archaeologists excavating 400,000-year-old rock in western Ukraine have uncovered fragments of what could be the oldest human-made ivory objects ever found. These artefacts would have been too soft to ...

Researchers say they have developed a new way to distinguish between legal mammoth ivory and illegal elephant ivory. Elephant ivory is often passed off as mammoth ivory when being imported. As the ...

The discovery could rewrite our understanding of North American human dispersion and and provide some insight into famed ...

The boomerang exists in the popular imagination as a playful tool connected with the Aboriginals of Australia, but its oldest known example hails from a cave in southern Poland that was used as a ...

Until now it was thought that writing developed in Mesopotamia around 3,000 BCE, followed by hieroglyphics in Egypt and later in China and Mesoamerica. "The Stone Age sign sequences are an early ...

The weapon is around 10,000 years older than experts previously estimated. The conclusion comes after an international research team reviewed artifacts recovered from Obłazowa Cave, one of Poland’s ...

A boomerang carved from a mammoth tusk is one of the oldest in the world, and it may be even older than archaeologists originally thought, according to a recent round of radiocarbon dating.