Senckenberg Centre for Human Evolution and Palaeoenvironment

Re-dated Lebanese collections yield a 300,000-year record for the central Levant

Gabriele Russo's team re-read fossils excavated in Lebanon more than a century ago, dating Ras el-Kelb to about 400,000 years and Nahr Ibrahim to about 250,000, and finding forests unlike the southern Levant's.