Prehistoric building found in modern Israeli city
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NaboCaneNew MemberOPJERUSALEM – Archaeologists have uncovered remains of an 8,000-year-old prehistoric building as well as ancient flint tools in the modern city of Tel Aviv, Israel's Antiquities Authority announced Monday. The building is the earliest structure ever found in Tel Aviv and changes what archaeologists previously believed about the area in ancient times.
"This discovery is both important and surprising to researchers of the period," said Ayelet Dayan, the archaeologist who led the excavation. "For the first time we have encountered evidence of a permanent habitation that existed in the Tel Aviv region 8,000 years ago," she said.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100112/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_ancient_building
OhiophinphanStaffI am not surprised/
There is a valley south of Beersheba called Ein Avdat which has signs of "human" habitation back to the days of Homo Neanderthalis . There are natural out croppings of flint, plentiful water, and abundant game. A regular prehistoric WalMart! Jericho, also within a short distance of TelAviv has been a "city" for at least 10,000 years.
You can not dig a foundation or a well or hardly anything in that part of the world and not hit some earlier inhabitaed layer!
Thanks for the read.
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unluckylucianoNew Memberi wonder if its surprising because they though man hadnt spread out that far yet........or if they think its too advanced for that time in that area?
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OhiophinphanStaffI'm not sure why they would be "surprised" unless it has something to do with the micro topography of the Tel Aviv area. In other words, "yes we knew they were in the area but surprised to find them in this particular spot"???? Curious
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padre31Luxury BoxHmm...to my weird way of looking at things, it appears to be 8,000 yr old Urban Sprawl.