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sharks tooth from medieval London

This bone specimen was found together with that skull on a modern trashdump. Does someone recognize what this is?
Thank you

This skull was found by a student a few years ago on a modern trash pit. It certainly is not from a local species (northern Yucatan), so I'd like to ask other researchers if the recognize the specimen (see also other images).

Proboscidean carved tusk with relief human figures without any locality data.

I would like to know if someone has seen some similar work and provide some clues or data for the cultural or geographic provenance

Introduction to the SAA Archaeological Record special forum: DIGITAL COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION: PERSPECTIVES FROM ZOOARCHAEOLOGY (January 2011) See entire forum here.

Paper included in the SAA Archaeological Record special forum: DIGITAL COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION: PERSPECTIVES FROM ZOOARCHAEOLOGY (January 2011)

Abstract:

Mammalian bone count data from seventy-four southern Scandinavian archaeological sites encompassing Denmark, Scania (southern Sweden) and northern Germany, and dating to the Mesolithic and the Neolithic periods were examined looking at…