Daughters of Jacob bridge

Prof. Ran Barkai holds a vertebra from an ancient elephant at the La Polderra site, Italy

On the fire, the stone version: When ancient man discovered the secret to smoking meat

Even a million years ago, people used to smoke meat to extend its shelf life.
A herd of elephants illustration: depositphotos.com

The mystery of the prehistoric quarrying sites has been solved: the connection between man, the elephant and the source of water

Why did the ancient man return again and again, over hundreds of thousands of years, to the same quarry sites? It turns out that the secret lies in the migration routes of the elephants
Flint vessels from periods that go back to the settlement of Homo erectus at the site of the Bnot Ya'akov Bridge over 600 thousand years ago. Courtesy of the researchers

Time travel following the travels of early man

The people who lived in the Hula valley hundreds of thousands of years ago made long journeys to obtain quality raw material for the production of hand stones
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