Sentences with phrase «walrus ivory»

Consequently the Norse Greenlanders initially became quite wealthy by harvesting and exporting walrus ivory to Western Europe.

The National Museum of Scotland makes a great full or half - day excursion into antiquity with popular exhibits to include the Lewis Chessman exhibit, a 30 piece walrus ivory chess set dating to the 12th Century, proving to be one of the most significant archaeological finds of its kind.

The Lewis Chessmen, an exquisite set of 12th century chess pieces worked out of walrus ivory and whales» teeth, are widely believed to have been crafted in the Trondheim / Nidaros area, and traded away.

The Norse would likely have travelled to the area to obtain furs and walrus ivory.

Elite soldiers were buried with elaborately decorated double - edged swords, and a man who appeared to be the chieftain clasped a sword with a jeweled hilt and held a gaming piece made of walrus ivory in his mouth.

The find suggests that the early Icelandic Norse were «experienced in handling walrus ivory,» NABO members wrote in a 2015 paper; it follows that the Greenlanders were, too.

Greenland was a key source of walrus ivory, which was carved into luxury goods such as the famous 12th century Lewis chessmen from Scotland.

The high value that medieval Europe placed on walrus ivory would have provided plenty of incentive to pursue it in Greenland.

Measurements of salt particles in ice cores suggest that storminess rose toward the end of the occupation, perhaps making voyages to hunt and trade walrus ivory even more dangerous.

Meanwhile, new finds of walrus ivory show that this valuable commodity may have driven the rise and fall of the community.

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They returned with countless walrus snouts, whose ivory tusks they removed and prepared for trade with Europe.

At Bellsund, where the marooned Englishmen had originally come to hunt, they dined on 3 walruses, 11 polar bears, 19 reindeer, 50 foxes and 60 ivory gulls.

The ivory trade is the commercial, often illegal trade inthe ivory tusks of the hippopotamus, walrus, narwhal, [1] mammoth, [2] andmost commonly, Asian and African elephants.

LaBudde continued to expose other forms of wildlife slaughter, including the illegal killing of walrus in Alaska for the ivory trade.