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700,000-year-old elephant tooth reveals a lost ecosystem shared by early humans in the Levant
A remarkably preserved elephant tooth previously recovered from Gesher Benot Ya'aqov (GBY-NBA)—a prehistoric site in northern Israel where early humans made stone tools some 700,000 years ago—has now enabled researchers to reconstruct a…
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A remarkably preserved elephant tooth recovered from the Gesher Benot Ya’aqov site in northern Israel has allowed scientists to reconstruct the surrounding Pleistocene environment. The site, where early humans crafted stone tools about 700,000 years ago, once featured a lush mosaic of woodlands, wetlands and waterways.
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