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<div>Hi Russell,</div>
<div>I know of no records of terrapin abundance here in Georgia, but I would imagine it was high, given the productivity of the salt marshes.</div>
<div>However ,we have found numerous terrapin shell fragments in pre European contact shell middens here on Skidaway Island. They were ilways in association with habitation artifacts that indicated they were used as food, Our excavated local site is the well
documented Groves Creek Site. </div>
<div>I have seen such shell fragments in other sites on our coast.</div>
<div>Terrapins have been laying here for several weeks.</div>
<div>Stay safe,</div>
<div>My best,</div>
<div>Crawfish </div>
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<b>Subject:</b> [Dtwg] pre-historic terrapin numbers/abundance</font>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">Have any of you come across records/reports where someone has written, or even just speculated, on the number/density/abundance of terrapins before or just after Europeans
arrived? I know for example that early European travelers to North America mentioned seeing very large numbers of sea turtles. Anything analogous for terrapins?</span></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style=""><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif; color:black">I’ve never seen much of anything about aboriginal use, or observations by early Europeans of aboriginal use, or speculation about even earlier. Seems to me that terrapins
were probably very very abundant, but I don’t see anything on that. </span></p>
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