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Carved cave turtle may have been worshipped 35,000 years before Christianity

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Micro-scratches within the grooves of the stone turtle shell show that it was carved by humans using sharp flint tools, experts ...
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35,000-year-old 'tortoise shell' carving may be Holy Land's oldest evidence of ritual behavior

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Smithsonian Magazine

A Mysterious Boulder Carved to Look Like a Tortoise Shell May Offer Evidence of the Middle East’s Earliest Ritual Ceremonies

The carved boulder, which weighs about 60 pounds and measures less than a foot across, “may have represented a totem or a mythological or spiritual figure,” says archaeologist Omry Barzilai. Clara ...
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Appraisal: Doug Eppes Eastern Box Turtle Carving, ca. 1975

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