### id275459082 mammoth ivory pendant is the oldest ornate Eurasian jewelry > A pendant carved from [mammoth](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2268417-first-million-year-old-dna-extracted-from-siberian-mammoth-teeth/) ivory is the oldest known ornate jewellery made by humans in Eurasia. The discovery is shaking up our understanding of [the emergence of so-called symbolic behaviours](https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25133450-700-lost-art-of-the-stone-age-the-cave-paintings-redrawing-human-history/) in the region. > > The oval-shaped [pendant](https://www.newscientist.com/article/2126580-prehistoric-humans-made-jewellery-out-of-exotic-island-animals/), 4.5 centimetres long and 1.5 cm wide, was unearthed in Stajnia cave in Poland. It has two holes drilled into it, presumably to be used for thread, and is decorated with a sequence of more than 50 small indents in a looping curve. - [View Highlight](https://read.readwise.io/read/01ft3vcvmana8k8t4mn6jdwymt) - [[Mammoth Ivory Pendant Is Oldest Decorated Jewellery Found in Eurasia by Alison George#id275459082 mammoth ivory pendant is the oldest ornate Eurasian jewelry|View in Vault]] - [n] Used for [[2022-01-31 Jewelry]]