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AI reconstruction of a mixed Neanderthal-Homo sapiens family.
August 20, 2025, 6:00 am
Study: Homo Sapiens procreated with Neanderthals 100,000 years earlier than thought
Israeli-French research applies new techniques to a fossilized child’s skull found in northern Israeli cave, and finds physical characteristics of both types of humans
By Sue Surkes
Replica of the painting from the Chauvet cave, in the Anthropos museum, Brno. (Wikipedia)
April 1, 2025, 7:42 am
Paleolithic kids’ finger painting in underground caves may have had a lofty purpose
New research from Tel Aviv University suggests prehistoric children were joint creators of European cave art, fulfilling a spiritual role for their communities
By Rossella Tercatin
Left: The intentionally engraved core found at the Manot Cave in a high-resolution photograph and 3D model (Photo by E. Ostrovsky and drawing by M. Smelansky, 3-D models by E. Paixao and L. Schunk). Right: The blade found at the Amud Cave, whose marks were created by casual abrasion. (Erella Hovers)
February 10, 2025, 9:31 am
Prehistoric artifacts from Israel prove our ancestors made art 100,000 years ago
New study shows Middle Paleolithic people intentionally decorated stone tools, offering evidence that abstract thinking began earlier than 50,000 years ago as previously believed
By Rossella Tercatin
Protestors at Begin Gate in Tel Aviv on January 14, 2025, calling for the release of all the hostages and the end to the war (Credit Yoav Loeff)
January 15, 2025, 1:24 pm
Daily Briefing Jan. 15: Day 467 – Hostage deal could be signed Wednesday or Thursday
Reporter Amy Spiro offers details of the proposal, which Foreign Minister Sa’ar calls gradual, not partial; reporter Sue Surkes reviews import changes and cave art
By Jessica Steinberg, Amy Spiro and Sue Surkes
American caver Mark Dickey, left, 40, talks to a colleague inside the Morca cave near Anamur, southern Turkey, Sept. 7, 2023. (Turkish Government Directorate of Communications via AP)
September 8, 2023, 3:33 pm
Rescuers may soon try to extract US explorer stuck in Turkey cave after he fell ill
Mark Dickey became sick with stomach bleeding 3,000 feet deep inside Taurus Mountains; researcher has sufficiently recovered that process to move him out can begin, official says
By Mehmet Guzel and Khalil Hamra
A team of researchers explores the "Portal to Hades" in the Teomim Caves near Beit Shemesh during a recent expedition. (courtesy Boaz Zissu)
July 19, 2023, 1:07 am
New finds show cave near Beit Shemesh may have been seen as a door to the underworld
Oil lamps and fragments of human skull lead archaeologists to believe Teomim Cave was used for necromancy, or communication with dead, some 1,700 years ago
By Melanie Lidman
The subterranean lake in the Ayalon Cave near Ramle, in central Israel. (Israel Ne'eman)
June 14, 2021, 9:18 pm
Scientists warn that flooding cave will ruin unique 5-million-year-old ecosystem
Blind, colorless arthropods make their home in Ayalon Cave in central Israel, thriving in dark, oxygen-free environment, fed by sulfurous water rising from deep in the earth
By Sue Surkes
The Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa. (Michael Chazan at the University of Toronto)
April 26, 2021, 8:19 pm
Hebrew U team proves earliest evidence of cave dwelling, 1.8 million years ago
Archaeologists examining Wonderwerk Cave in South Africa find more indications humans were active there nearly a million years before accepted estimates
By Stuart Winer
Members of the French team that participated in the 'Deep Time' study, emerge from the Lombrives Cave after 40 days underground in Ussat les Bains, France, April 24, 2021. (Renata Brito/AP)
April 26, 2021, 9:39 am
‘Like pressing pause’: 15 people emerge after 40 days in isolated cave
French study examining effects of being cut off from world finds time seemed to pass more slowly for participants as they lived underground, deprived of clocks or sunlight
By Renata Brito
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