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Just off Israeli highway, 500,000-year-old site found

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prasad1

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Israeli archaeologists have uncovered next to one of the country’s busiest roads the site of an extraordinarily well preserved prehistoric “paradise” used by stone age hunter-gatherers over half a million years ago, who left behind evidence of hundreds of knapped flint hand-axes. The discovery at about a five-metre depth at Jaljulia, near the town of Kfar Saba, suggests that the human ancestors of homo sapiens – homo erectus – may have returned to the site repeatedly, perhaps attracted by a water source and abundant game, leaving behind evidence of their primitive stone tools.



[FONT=&quot]Archaeologists believe the site, north-east of Tel Aviv, was regarded as a sort of “paradise” for prehistoric hunter-gatherers – with a stream, vegetation and an abundance of animals encouraging them to return.

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https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/aed92e9c-fcfd-337b-898e-119b4ecf03e9/stone-age-hunter-gatherers'.html



Another River that vanished.
 
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