Mammoth tusk flakes may be the oldest ivory objects made by humans
[ad_1] A mammoth skeleton at the State Museum for Natural History in Stuttgart, Germany DANIEL NAUPOLD/dpa/Alamy 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 use as cutting tools, but they could have been used…