| Alaska and Siberia are the two main locations for | | | | mammoth ivory are both actually very fragile materials. |
| excavating the extinct woolly mammoth and tusks of | | | | Although both elephant and mammoth tusks are hard |
| ivory. Siberia, just as Alaska, carries the on going | | | | to the touch, they are also both made up of |
| struggle that is getting deeper between the | | | | concentrated growth rings. It is when the tusks begin |
| archaeologists and those excavating specifically for | | | | to grow and age, that there will be shrinkage. While at |
| the exquisite natural material of mammoth ivory tusks. | | | | the same time, the ivory rings will then separate |
| With mammoth now being the chosen ivory for | | | | causing it to be slightly more fragile with the aging |
| creating some of the most beautiful ivory art | | | | process. It is because of this, that the tusks of |
| throughout time, it is also one of the only legal ivory | | | | mammoth can be difficult to find as completely perfect |
| allowed because of elephants being banned, the | | | | whole tusks during initial preservation. This is one of the |
| importance of this ivory is at its height. | | | | reasons as to why the excavation process can be |
| Even with the importance of archeology and the laws | | | | slightly difficult and time consuming, so to not damage |
| enforced to protect Alaska's only way to detail the | | | | the 10,000 year old tusks of the mammoth. |
| land and human history, there are still those who do not | | | | If you are the proud owner of an exquisitely rare item |
| care. Some interstate commerce traders are not | | | | made of mammoth ivory, you then understand why |
| stopping and illegally mining public sites for old walrus | | | | such time and care is taken during the initial excavation. |
| ivory and whale bone. The mammoth, walrus and | | | | There is no questionable doubt of the wealth and |
| whale are to serve as raw material for making ivory | | | | beauty that you have decided to invest in when you |
| jewelry, scrimshaw, and carvings. | | | | are collecting mammoth ivory. |
| Despite what many people may think, elephant and | | | | |