article_snippet.sent: LiveScience notes that anthropologist Berthold Laufer published an analysis of texts and artefacts in the journal T'oung Pao in 1913, in which he found that the Chinese had an interest in obtaining ivory.
article_snippet.sent: he said that some of ivory may have come from the Bering Strait.
article_snippet.sent: There is also evidence that plate armour made using ivory and bones
article_snippet.sent: Its overlapping style is similar to plate armour developed in East Asia, thousands of years ago.