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Stone Age mammoth tooth

Get up close to a real piece of prehistory!

With a mouse and keyboard: Click on this object and drag your mouse to spin it up and down or left to right, or use your mouse wheel. To zoom in, click once on the object, and move your mouse to move the view. To zoom out again, drag your mouse off the object.

On a touchscreen: Drag your finger up and down or left and right on the object to spin it. To zoom in, touch the arrow button in the top left corner to enter full screen mode, then tap twice on the object very quickly. Drag your finger to move the view. To zoom out again, touch above or below the object.

What is it?

This tooth once belonged to a woolly mammoth that roamed in the London area during the Palaeolithic period, around 200,000 BC.

Other animal bones found in London include those from cave lions, straight tusked elephants and woolly rhinoceros!


What do you think?

  • What do you think the mammoth tooth might feel like?
  • Why did prehistoric people hunt mammoths?
  • Why do you think mammoths became extinct?


Further info

Object ID number: SC155

If you use this image, please credit it as follows:
Digital image copyright Museum of London

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