G.D. Everson’s scientific contributions

... Additionally, turtles have also been part of ancient cultural practices of Indigenous people throughout the world, with turtle shells serving as musical instruments in the USA (Gillreath-Brown and Peres 2017), clay reliefs in Africa (Zubieta 2016), and ceramic art in Panama (Cooke 2004), St. Vincent and the Grenadines (Waldron 2011). Rock art depictions have been documented in New Guinea (Röder 1939), South Africa (Rudner and Rudner 1968), Canada (Lanoue 1990), Somaliland (Mire 2008), Honduras (Palka 2010), India (Nihildas 2014), and in Alabama (Henson 1986), Nevada (Schneider and Everson 1989), Montana (McCleary 2016), Kentucky (Coy et al. 1997), Wyoming (Loendorf et al. 2005), Arizona (Bostwick 2002), and California (Whitley 2005) in the USA. ...

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Distribution of freshwater turtle rock art and archaeological sites in Australia: a glimpse into Aboriginal use of chelonians