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In today's Saxony-Anhalt, Neanderthals hunted huge forest elephants and turtles 125,000 years ago. According to researchers, however, the reptiles were not primarily killed for feeding, but had another purpose.
Neanderthals needed food, but also killed turtles with little nutritional value. Why? The answer is probably found in the tank, as a research team found out.They discovered even more.Schild toad tanks as ladles? What sounds absurd from today's perspective was probably a method in the everyday life of the Central European Neanderthals.This suggests new findings from an international research team led by Professor Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser from…
Tracking Neanderthal Turtle Hunters
This Illustration shows a European pond turtle crawling next to the foot of a European straight-tusked elephant. NEUMARK-NORD, GERMANY—A new analysis of turtle shell fragments unearthed at the Paleolithic site of Neumark-Nord in the German state of Saxony-Anhalt suggests Neanderthals regularly hunted the diminutive European pond turtle. A team led by archaeologist Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser from the Institute for Ancient Studies at Johannes Gu…
For Neanderthals, turtles were not particularly productive prey animals. Nevertheless, they were hunted by them. A research team has now found possible reasons for this.
MAINZ. Turtle tank as a spoon? What sounds absurd from today's perspective was probably a method in the everyday life of the Central European Neanderthals. This suggests new findings of an international research team around the Mainz professor Sabine Gaudzinski-Windheuser from Johannes Gutenberg University. Subject of investigation by the three-member team: approximately 125,000-year-old pieces of turtle tank that [...]
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