Siberia의 mammoth 어금니 발굴수집

About 10 thousand years ago, northern Siberia and Yakutia was inhabited by hairy giants , called mammoths .

Now extinct genus of mammal has suffered as a result of raising the temperature at the end of the last Ice Age ,

which resulted in their habitat was flooded and reduced .

Animals caught in limbo on an isolated island , where there was not the slightest chance to return to the mainland .

Some populations , sharpened on these land areas to the east and north of Siberia , stayed and became extinct about 3,700 years ago .

Remains of mammoths , in particular, their tusks , today wear the status of the most common fossils in Yakutia and Siberia .

According to scientific estimates , reserves of this ancient material in Russia reach hundreds of thousands of tons ,

 and annual production is several tens of ( 20 - 60) t .

Given the volumes produced relics, one can only imagine how big the number of mammoths lived on these lands in those days.

Known tusks - champions curled in a spiral 4 - 4.5 meters, their weight was 100 - 110 kg, and diameter - 18 - 19 cm .

The indigenous peoples of the northern regions , previously met often washed spring waters tusks , thought , that the giant animals

are moved under the ground , putting on its surface only their huge " teeth " .

They called their Eggor , t . E . Earthen deer . According to other legends , mammoths lived at the beginning of the time of creation .

Because - because of its enormous weight they constantly sinking up to his chest in the ground .

The generated mammoths paths formed riverbeds , creeks , which ultimately led to the complete flooding ( there is a legend , that during the

biblical flood animals like saved on Noah's ark , but could not fit there ).

Some time animals floated over the vast waters , but on poultry sadivshiesya tusks condemned them to death .

Across the territory of the European part of Russia and Siberia, and until the mid XX century actively flourishing folk art of bone carving .

Local carvers sired combs , boxes , miniature sculptures and podchasniki exclusively from the tusks of mammoths .

This material is very beautiful , plastic and durable , though and it has a certain complexity in the processing .

 Its hardness is equivalent to such materials like pearls , amber and coral .

Mammoth bones easily handled cutter , acquiring a great mesh pattern , and thanks to the large size of them can perform almost any sculptural form .

The tusks of mammoths back from the permafrost using hard work seekers .

Their production is quite complex , since it is often the old material lies in the marshy ground , on the bottom of rivers , tundra .

 Tusks are often found along the banks of streams , lakes and ravines .

To remove one artifact earner It required from several hours to several days of continuous excavation .

Today, almost all the production of mammoth tusks in the vast Yakutia is illegal character , and about 90% of the received " jewels "

is the territory of China in the end , where it is very revered ancient tradition of carving on ivory .

 The rapid increase in demand causes some concern among researchers , because it leads to the loss of valuable data about the animals

living on this earth , tusks which contain information about the climate , feed and the environment .

Perhaps , in the permafrost of Siberia and Yakutia - still locked up millions , and even more tusks of mammoths , but find them every year

becomes more and more difficult . At present, the cost of a kilogram of quality ivory on the black market is about 25 thousand rubles ,

 and in antique Chinese stores price per elaborately decorated with carved tusk can be up to a million dollars .