Learn how Neanderthals in central Europe hunted pond turtles and likely reused their shells as containers or scooping tools.

Neanderthals hunted turtles but did not rely on them for food. Instead, they cleaned and reused shells as tools.

Painting of a straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) during the early temperate period of the Eemian interglacial, ...

Neanderthals hunted European pond turtles (Emys orbicularis) in Central Europe, though probably not for food. The careful ...