Mammoth

(noun)

Alarge, hairy, extinct elephant-like mammal of the taxonomic genus Mammuthus.

Related Terms

  • Hut
  • Paleolithic Age
  • Paleolithic

Examples of Mammoth in the following topics:

  • Art in Western Europe

    • The "Swimming Reindeer" is a mammoth tusk carving of two swimming reindeer that was found in France in 1866 .
    • The "Swimming Reindeer" is a mammoth tusk carving of two swimming reindeer that was found in France in 1866.
  • The Stone Age

    • The most common animals in cave art are the more intimidating ones, like cave lions, woolly rhinoceroses, and mammoths.
    • Made of mammoth tusk and found in Germany.
  • Paleolithic Sculpture

    • The Venus of Hohle Fels, a 6 cm figure of a woman carved from a mammoth's tusk, was discovered in Germany's Hohle Fels cave in 2008 and represents one of the earliest found sculptures of this type.
    • The Venus of Hohle Fels, a 6 cm figure of a woman carved from a mammoth's tusk, was discovered in Germany's Hohle Fels cave in 2008 and represents one of the earliest found sculptures of this type.
  • Painting and Sculpture

    • The French neoclassical style would greatly contribute to the monumentalism of the French Revolution, as typified in the structures La Madeleine Church, which is in the form of a Greek temple, and the mammoth Panthéon (1764-1812) modeled on the ancient Roman Pantheon.
  • Revolution in France

    • This monumentalist tendency is typified in the structure of La Madeleine church, which is in the form of a Greek temple, and the mammoth Panthéon (1764-1812) which today houses the tombs of prominent Frenchmen .
  • Landscape Painting in the Romantic Period

    • American painters in this movement created works of mammoth scale in an attempt to capture the epic size and scope of the landscapes that inspired them.
  • Paleolithic Architecture

    • In Siberia, a group of Russian scientists uncovered a house or tent with a frame constructed of mammoth bones.
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