The last woolly mammoth disappeared at the end of the Pleistocene, around ten thousand years ago. Climate change, not humans, caused the mammoth's extinction 4,000 to 4,500 years ago. The animals then found less and less grassland, which led to a complete decline in the population.
Provenance: old collection of archaeological objects of a Belgian collector in the 60s-70s in the Liège region (Belgium)
17.5 x 14.5 cm, thickness 6.5 cm, weight 2340 gr