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The archaeological site in Wadi Paynan. Credit: Thomas Levy

Recordings of the magnetic field from 9,000 years ago teach us about the magnetic field today

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Burnt flint tools from prehistoric sites make it possible to determine the strength of the Earth's magnetic field in ancient times. The information about the magnetic field in ancient times may have implications for the understanding of the magnetic field in our time. The researchers: "About 7,600 years ago the strength of the magnetic field was even lower than today, but within about 600 years the field strengthened and rose again to a high level."
A virtual reality tour of the Lascave cave in France where prehistoric wall paintings have been preserved. PR photo, Dassault Systèmes

A virtual tour of the digital twin of the cave in France where magnificent cave paintings were discovered

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Leskov Cave, which has been closed to the public since 1963 and the possibility for experts to explore it is also limited due to fear of damage, has undergone a digitization process and now you can visit a virtual twin prepared by Dassault Systèmes without fear of damaging the cave
Clay lumps discovered in Tel Tsef. Photography - Tal Rogovski

How were buildings and shipments sealed 7,000 years ago?

The rare seal impression that was found is the earliest evidence in Israel of the use of a seal for signing shipments or locking doors. The seal dates to the Middle Chalcolithic period, about two thousand years before the appearance of writing
Works at Wonderwork Cave. Photo courtesy of Prof. Michael, Hebrew University

The intentional settlement in the oldest caves in the world has been found

Researchers from the Hebrew University and the University of Toronto found that the ancient hominids settled in caves and began making tools as early as 1.8 million years ago in South Africa: "The study reliably confirms and establishes our previous estimates regarding the ages of the first settlement in the cave, the changes in stone tool production technologies and the first deliberate use of fire "
A handful of olive pits from the facility at the Carmel forging site (photo by Ehud Galili)

The earliest evidence of the production of edible olives was found

Researchers from the Hebrew University, the University of Haifa, the Technion, Aviv University, the Volcanic Institute and other research institutions from Israel and the world discovered the find at a site from about 6,500 years ago that sank into the sea. In this way, the discovery predates the ancient evidence that was known until now by about 4000 years.
Chopping and cutting tool from the late Ishli site in Rabved (photo: Prof. Ran Barkai)

The toolbox of prehistoric man

The layered site, which was apparently used by humans of the late Homo erectus type, was a favorite site, to which the humans returned again and again. Bone remains of a wide variety of animals were found on the site - elephants, cattle, elk, donkeys and more, which were used as food for the residents
Prof. Israel Finkelstein. Photo: Tel Aviv University spokesperson

Soy, bananas and turmeric: the flavors of globalization in the bronze and iron ages

The research focused on food residues identified in dental stone of people buried in Tel Megiddo and Tel Irani (near Kiryat Gat). In the teeth, dating to the 16th century BC in Megiddo and the 11th century BC in Tel Irani, remains of various foods were found, including foods from Southeast Asia such as soybeans, bananas and turmeric.
Wall paintings of horses and wild cattle in Shove Cave. By Thomas T. from somewhere on Earth - Etologic horse study, Chauvet´s caveUploaded by FunkMonk, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=16624436

A captive cave in France: the Louvre of anti-historical art

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Hundreds of meters of realistic wall paintings, the oldest of which are 36 thousand years old, depict vivid and sometimes even three-dimensional descriptions of the local nature at the same time when herds of cattle and wild horses roamed the area, lionesses hunted for prey, and more. The cave was discovered in 1994, and about twenty years later a replica of it was opened to the public in order to prevent damage to the original cave
A bull figurine that was discovered at the excavation site of a 9,000-year-old settlement in the area of ​​origin. Photo by Clara Amit, Israel Antiquities Authority

A huge 9000-year-old prehistoric settlement, the largest in Israel and one of the largest in the world, was uncovered near Moza

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Claire McFadden, a researcher in the Department of Social Sciences works in the lab with 4,000-year-old skulls. Photo: Australian National University ANU

The agricultural revolution caused a population explosion in Southeast Asia 4,000 years ago

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Images of industrious deer bones from a culture that existed in the area for a short time 35 thousand years ago. Photo: The Hebrew University

A new archaeological study reveals a sign of a unique culture from about 34,000 years ago

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A comet hit the earth. Illustration: shutterstock

About 12.8 years ago, a comet fragment caused 10% of the Earth's surface to burn

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The NEG II excavation site in Nahal Ein-Gev from a bird's eye view (Credit: Austin (Chad) Hill/Leore Grosman)

Archaeologists have discovered a prehistoric settlement that connects the Early and New Stone Age

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Prehistoric skeletons from Europe.

Starting next week, a series of lectures for the general public on immigration at the initiative of the Academy of Sciences

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Brigitte Alex examines samples in the D-REAMS laboratory at the Weizmann Institute headed by Dr. Elisabetta Burato.

Special to the Science site: Did Neanderthal man and Homo sapiens unite in Israel?

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The excavation site in Ramla, where the remains of a Paleolithic meal were discovered. Photo: Tomer Appelbaum for the University of Haifa

The diet of the inhabitants of Ramla 170 thousand years ago: horses, donkeys and even rhinoceroses

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Fiesborough Beaches in the UK: photographing footprints facing south

Human footprints from 800 years ago, the oldest outside of Africa, were discovered in England

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To restore the appearance of a man who lived 7,000 years ago in Spain. Figure: National Scientific Council of Spain (CSIC)

The ancient man in Spain had blue eyes and dark skin

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A 3,700-year-old wine cellar in Tel Kabri. Photo: Eric Klein.

Archaeologists discovered the oldest and largest wine cellar in Kibbutz Kabri: 3,700 years old

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Caves stream. Photo: shutterstock

Nahal Maerot was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site about a year ago, only this week a ceremony was held

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The palynologist Dr. Dafna Langut examines in the laboratory the drilling taken from the center of Lake Kinneret. Photo: Prof. Israel Pinkshaltein, Dr. Dafna Langut - Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv University researchers: Middle Eastern empires collapsed because of a climate crisis

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A view of the foothills of the Zagros Mountains in Iran. Photo: shutterstock

Agriculture began simultaneously in several places in the Fertile Crescent

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Grad Diamond, 2013 Wolf Prize Winner in Agriculture, author of Guns, Germs, and Steel

Prof. Jared Diamond, author of the book Guns, Germs and Steel, won the Wolf Prize in the field of agriculture

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Cheeses at the market in Basel, Switzerland. From Wikipedia

7,500 year old cheese

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A happy hunter carries the head of a Kodiak bear. Photo: US Forest and Wildlife Service. From Wikipedia

The super carnivore monkey

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