Mammoth Bone (back of skull)

Mammoth bone from the back of the mammoth's skull.

These proboscideans are members of Elephantidae, the family of elephants and mammoths, and close relatives of modern elephants.

They were often equipped with long curved tusks and, in northern species, a covering of long hair.

They lived from the Pliocene epoch from around 4.8 million to 4,500 years ago.