Dear List,
I have recently been asked to look at an elephant tooth (molar) which supposedly came from a medieval context in Northern England. Can anyone recommend a publication which deals with the morphology of elephant teeth, as well as criteria for distinguishing elephant and mammoth teeth (I am considering the possibility that the material is intrusive, or a discarded curio rather than a relic population of mammoths surviving in Northern England into the medieval period).
Kind regards,
Don.
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