A Rare Whale Tooth Reveals a Copper-Age Community’s Connection to the Sea

A Rare Whale Tooth Reveals a Copper-Age Community’s Connection to the Sea

Learn how a sperm whale tooth traveled from sea to archaeological site over 4,000 years ago.

A Rare Whale Tooth Reveals a Copper-Age Community’s Connection to the Sea – Monkey Viral

The migrations of sperm whales are impressive, and so, too, are the travels of their teeth. In 2018, a team of archaeologists discovered a fragment of a sperm whale tooth at Valencina, a Copper Age archaeological site near Seville in southwest Spain. Deposited at the site over 4,000 years ago, the find represented one of […]