40,000 years ago, great sheets of ice covered the plains and mountains of the American continent, where frigid temperatures brought everlasting winter. In these harsh conditions, a giant roamed, at once majestic and terrible. The wooly mammoth captured our imaginations, and is memorialized in the cave paintings of a more primal time. This ancient fossilized ivory, once buried under the arctic permafrost, is smooth and silk-like, with nicks and crevices traveling along the curve of each tusk. Mammoth tusk connects us with the furthest reaches of our human family.

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