"An elephant tusk from level IIA at Mehrgarh in Pakistan, c.5500 BC, grooved by artisans, is the earliest evidence for the working of an Asian elephant's tusks."
— Ivory trade

January 1, 1970

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Ancient Mesopotamian Materials and Industries: The Archaeological Evidence. Moorey Peter Roger Stuart, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1994. page 116, citing (Jarrige 1984:24). 1984 'Chronology of the Earlier Periods of the Greater lndus as seen from Mehrgarh, Pakistan', in Allchin (cd.) 1984, 21·-8. Quoted in