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Volunteers work in Tinshemet Cave, where archaeologists are excavating one of the world's oldest known burial sites, dating back 100,000 years, near the central town of Shoam, July 15, 2025. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
July 24, 2025, 8:26 pm
100,000-year-old burial site in Israel reveals complex rituals of early humans
Archaeologists find skeletons at Tinshemet Cave in north, along with pebbles, animal remains and a reddish pigment made from rocks, which experts think were part of burial practices
By Melanie Lidman
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
Tinshemet Cave, a Middle Paleolithic site in central Israel, during excavations. (Yossi Zaidner)
March 11, 2025, 4:27 pm
Sapiens and Neanderthals coexisted in prehistoric Israel, rare cave burials show
Using dentists’ tools, archaeologists painstakingly uncover evidence that Israel’s Tinshemet Cave housed hominins who shared rituals and knowledge, and possibly lived in harmony
By Rossella Tercatin
Left: Meir Orbach from the the Zinman Institute of Archaeology – University of Haifa holding the Extinct rhino jaw from Nesher Ramla site. (Prof. Reuven Yeshurun). Right: Auroch skeleton. (Wikipedia)
March 7, 2025, 4:04 pm
Early humans in Israel really liked their steaks, new study shows
While the region offered a great diversity of fauna, Middle Paleolithic humans favored hunting the ancestor of cows, archaeological remains from the Nesher Ramla site have revealed
By Rossella Tercatin
Illustrative: A caveman holds a stone-tipped spear, ready to hunt animal preys. (iStock/Getty Images)
January 9, 2025, 10:44 am
Early man ate carbs and processed food 780,000 years ago, northern Israel site shows
Analysis of basalt tools from the Hula Valley shows that Stone Age humans gathered, extracted and crushed starches from acorns, cereals, legumes and aquatic plants
By Gavriel Fiske
Dr. Filipe Natalio, seen here at a site in the Negev Desert, holding a flint tool. (screenshot)
October 5, 2020, 9:09 pm
Cave dwellers forged their tools in fire 300,000 years ago, Israeli study shows
Weizmann Institute findings based on AI analysis of flint from Qesem Cave, using tool-making re-enactment, hi-tech Raman spectroscopy, and machine learning
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
100,000-year-old tools uncovered at a flint-knapping site outside Dimona in Israel's Negev Desert. (Emil Aladjem/Israel Antiquities Authority)
August 4, 2020, 2:19 pm
Paleolithic flint tools are 1st ‘breadcrumbs’ of modern man’s trail to Israel
Migration route from Africa given new clarity by 100,000-year-old tools discovered outside Dimona in the Negev Desert made by unusual flint-knapping technique
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Skin removal on the proximal part of the metapodials and tendons removal in combination with skinning during the experimentation. (Dr. Ruth Blasco)
October 9, 2019, 9:14 pm
Archaeologists discover 400,000-year-old paleo snack pack in Israeli cave
Researchers find prehistoric man had technique for storing bone marrow for up to nine weeks, which they replicate in gruesome experiment
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Dr. Amaia Arranz-Otaegui, right, and Ali Shakaiteer sampling cereals in the Shubayqa area in northeastern Jordan where ancient bread was found. (Joe Roe)
July 17, 2018, 4:27 pm
Bread was being baked in Jordan 4,000 years before the start of agriculture
At 14,400-year-old hunter-gatherer site, archaeologists find oldest direct evidence of breadmaking, suggesting desire for bread may have sparked farming
By ToI Staff
Collection of 780,000 year old remains of edible plants. (Credit: Yoel Melamed)
December 5, 2016, 10:39 pm
Traces of true paleo diet emerge from muck in northern Israel
A new study by Israeli archaeologists reveals diverse plant diet, adventurous eating of our ancestors 780,000 years ago
By Ilan Ben Zion
The teeth found at Qesem Cave outside of Tel Aviv (Courtesy: Prof. Israel Hershkovitz/Tel Aviv University)
June 18, 2015, 1:03 pm
400,000-year-old teeth reveal prehistoric pollution
Tel Aviv University team provides unprecedented glimpse into eating and cooking habits of paleolithic man
By Judah Ari Gross
The Temple of One burns on the last night of the Israeli Burning Man festival, Midburn, in the desert near Sde Boker, May 24, 2015. (Ben Kelmer/Flash90)
May 31, 2015, 11:22 pm
Israeli Burning Man may have accidentally damaged prehistoric tools
Central art installation of last week’s Midburn festival was built atop 150,000-year-old archaeological site
By Melanie Lidman
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