That has repercussions for Alaska Native ivory carvers, who use tusks from legally hunted walrus. At a forum in Washington D.C. this week, leaders from the Bering Straits region said they are ...

The Norse communities farmed and fished. But a new study suggests that they had another valuable source of support: trading valuable walrus ivory with an avid European market. Walrus ivory was ...

A dogged search for walrus ivory may have brought two unlikely cultures together — the Thule Inuits of the Arctic and the Norse of Greenland — hundreds of years before Christopher Columbus set ...

The study is now published in Science Advances. In Medieval Europe, there was an enormous demand for elite products, among them—walrus ivory. With the Vikings playing a vital part in the ivory ...

Walrus ivory was traded up and down Europe in the early Medieval period, when it was considered a hot commodity. The material was used in objects from crucifixes to game pieces, and Greenland's ...

But instead of leading birds and animals to the confinement of a 40-cubit ark, this aged Eskimo ivory carver gentles them out of walrus tusks and into the hands of collectors. And ivory carvings ...

"We've taken a pretty big hit on this elephant ivory ban. People are getting mistaken with it, with walrus ivory because they're not explaining and getting it out there," Pungowiyi says.

Recently discovered evidence, however, indicates Norse sailors weren’t only the first Europeans to likely meet Indigenous societies—genetic analysis of walrus DNA indicates their ivory trade ...