"Historical records show that Abenakis and other Natives encountered European explorers and traders in Canada looking for sources of ivory to compete with the Russian trade in Siberian fossil mammoth ivory - these traders routinely asked about ivory 'horns' and teeth."
Adrienne Mayor is an American historian of ancient science and classical folklore. She is known for scholarship on ancient myths, natural history, and warfare, including work on the concept of Amazons in antiquity. She is affiliated with Stanford University as a research scholar.