Archaeological research

Figure 2 - Stone tools and hand stones from site MW2, all made of volcanic raw materials. Photo credit - Arela Hubers.

The adaptability and thinking of early hominins in Ethiopia 1.6–1 million years ago was developed

The study examines how ancient humans chose and used different types of rocks to create tools, focusing on the archaeological site of Malacca and Kena in the Ethiopian highlands, one of the oldest high altitude settlement sites in the world
spinning methods. (a) Manual spinning on the thigh [64]; (b) "supported spinning" [68]; (c) "spinning in falling" [66]; (d) The experimental skills and beads, the three-dimensional scans of the perforated stones and the negatives of the holes in them. In the pictures at the bottom, we can see a crystal ion during a fiber spinning experiment with replicas of the perforated stones, using support spinning and drop spinning techniques (photo: Talia Yeshav)

Was the wheel invented on the banks of the Sea of ​​Galilee 12,000 years ago?

Skills discovered in Ein Gav may be early evidence of wheel-like technology. The study by researchers at the Hebrew University suggests that stones found at an archaeological site in Israel were used as skills for spinning fibers into threads, and represent a phase
A herd of Triceratops horridus walks in a swamp during the Cretaceous period. Credit Bart Boss

Spielberg was right: triceratops lived together (video)

A decade-long study shows that five three-horned dinosaurs lived - and died - together, similar to their depiction in Steven Spielberg's Jurassic World
The gate looking at. Photo by Emil Algam, Antiquities Authority.

In Kiryat Gat, the oldest gate in Israel was discovered

In an excavation by the Antiquities Authority prior to the construction of a Mekorot company water line in the Kiryat Gat area, an ancient gate was discovered, approximately 5,500 years old * This gate was part of the fortification system of one of the hills