Ancient Elephant Tooth Reconstructs a 700,000-Year-Old Haven for Early
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700,000-year-old elephant tooth reveals the landscape that sustained early humans in the Levant | Archaeology News Online Magazine
A well-preserved elephant tooth from northern Israel has given researchers a picture of the land where early humans lived 700,000 years ago. The tooth came from Gesher Benot Ya’aqov, a prehistoric site in the Jordan Rift Valley, south of today’s Hula Valley. Early humans made stone tools there. Hannah Farrell, a PhD candidate at the […]
The Elephant's Tooth, Age 700,000, Described the Ecosystem in Which Ancient People Lived in Levante.
Science and Heitech: Scientists from Tel-Hay University (Kiriyat-Schmona, Galileo) and colleagues reconstructed the ancient Levant ecosystem by the tooth and fragments of the tusks of a giant elephant that lived 700,000 years ago.
Ancient Elephant Tooth Reconstructs a 700,000-Year-Old Haven for Early
A 700,000-year-old straight-tusked elephant tooth from Gesher Benot Ya'aqov in northern Israel has allowed researchers to reconstruct a lush woodland-wetland ecosystem that sustained megafauna and some of the Levant's earliest human toolmakers.
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