700,000-year-old elephant tooth reveals the landscape that sustained early humans in the Levant

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 […]

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