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Cotton fibers that are 7,000 years old have been found in an ancient village in Israel, indicating its place within a global trade network.

Archaeological remains in the Central Jordan Valley show evidence of the oldest example of olives being farmed outside their naturally-occurring range.

Domestication may indicate initial steps in developing a socioeconomic hierarchy supported by administrative system.

The Phoenicians were the great mariners of the ancient world. They traded with many cultures and created the alphabet to make trading easier.

The oldest evidence of the consumption of beer was found at the Natufian burial site of Rakefet Cave on Mt. Carmel, dating back 14,000 years.

Predating writing by millennia, the clay impression – with two different stamps – is the oldest found in Israel and may have been used to protect the Neolithic village’s riches

Get email notification for articles from Ruth Schuster Follow Jun. 10, 2021 9:15 AM A stamped seal impression around 7,000 years old, predating the invention of writing, has been found at Tel Tsaf, a prehistoric village in northern Israel that its excavators believe was an extraordinarily wealthy place, as Neolithic sites went. The oldest discovery of its kind in Israel, the sealing attests to a primitive form of administration as early as the Middle Chalcolithic period, a team of archaeologis...

A twice-stamped little ancient blob of clay discovered in Tel Tsaf -- alongside other evidence -- leads researchers to deduce a millennia-old complex mercantile exchange