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Ramla Eagle

Timeline - the man from Nesher Ramla who was apparently the ancestor of the Neanderthals and other human species. Courtesy of Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University

The man from Nesher Ramla lived for a long time alongside Homo sapiens * the link that connected us to the Neanderthals

The discovery was published as part of a study carried out by a group of Israeli researchers, in which the earliest archaeological evidence of the contemporaneity and close relationship between Homo sapiens and an archaic man who was locally known as "Adam Nesher Ramla" was revealed. A scientific article about the study was published in Science, which emphasized that The initial meeting place was in Israel
Laboratory photograph of the bone and the engravings on it. Credit to researcher Marion Parvo

Research: A bone with six similar engravings is ancient evidence of human symbolism

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The bone from the Ramla eagle is the oldest known representation of an abstract symbol in the Levant. Dr. Zeidner from the Institute of Archeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, one of the leaders of the research: "It can be said that a bone with a symbolic engraving was found among the oldest in the world, certainly in the Levant."
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