Illustration of a mammoth tusk that has had an image of a mammoth carved on it. It was found in the Dordogne region of southern France in 1868 by excavations supervised by the French geologist and palaeontologist Edouard Lartet (1801-1871). It dates from around 28,000 years ago and was carved by Cro-Magnons, an early European culture of modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens). Lartet's excavations, which also discovered tools and skeletal remains, showed that modern humans had lived at the same time as extinct mammals, such as the woolly mammoth. From Reliquiae Aquitanicae by Edouard Lartet and Henry Christy (1875).