Did Ice Age Europeans Use Turtles As “Living Tins” Of Food? Researchers studied the five turtle shell fragments found at the quarry using radiocarbon dating and determined that they’re ...

A massive ice sculpture of a leatherback sea turtle is on display in front of the New England Aquarium.

At the Barleben-Adamsee gravel quarry, in addition to flint tools, five fragments of turtle shells between 42,000 and 50,000 years old have been found. These may have constituted easily transportable ...