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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 archaeologists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem reports in the journal Levant. It is also the earliest si...