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University of Haifa

Collaborating institution on the SHIC-XE study.

Known aliases

  • Zinman Institute of Archaeology

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Elephant molar records a well-watered valley where toolmakers worked in Israel 700,000 years ago

Hannah Farrell's team used a 700,000-year-old elephant molar from Israel's Gesher Benot Ya'aqov to reconstruct woodland and wetland around early toolmakers. The idea that the wet valley eased travel along the Africa-Eurasia land bridge is the authors' inference from one site and one elephant.

Publishers:phys.org

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