Mammoth Tooth Cross-Section in Display Box - United States Juab County

Juab County

Commonly found in Afghanistan

Recently discovered in the 1990s

There is also some dirt likely left to add to the aesthetic of the tooth or cover up missing material

all estimated between 4000 and 5000 years old

Mammoth Tooth Cross-Section in Display Box - United States Juab CountyAlmost everyone has heard of the great Wolly Mammoth. The truth is, there were a few different species of mammoth that lived all over the world. It is believed that the genus Mammuthus sp. first developed around 5 million years ago in southern Africa. Mammoths migrated up through modern day Asia, across the Bering Land Bridge, and down into the Americas. Living until just 5000 years ago, lasting from the Pliocene Epoch to the Holocene, it is likely