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18 FEBRUARY 2021 In 1928, the renowned British archaeologist, Dorothy Garrod, excavated the Shukbah Cave in the hills of Palestine, just north of Jerusalem. This was some of her earliest work in a long and successful career, revealing a rich collection of ancient stone tools, animal bones, and a single fossilised tooth - what looked like a large human molar. For fifty years the discovery was lost in the private collection of a collaborator, unrecognised and neglected. Then, at the turn of the century, the long-lost tooth landed in the laps of researchers at the British Museum of Natural H...
The view from Shukbah Cave (Credit: Amos Frumkin) (CN) — Neanderthals used stone-shaping technology once thought to be used exclusively by homo sapiens, in a discovery revealed this week that has scientists rethinking how ancient humans developed. Researchers discovered stone tools in cave sites in the Levant, a historical region in the present-day Middle East, belonging to Neanderthal communities, distant cousins of modern humans. In a study published Monday in the journal Scientific Reports, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Germany detailed th...
New Thoughts on Neanderthal Range and Tool Use Tuesday, February 16, 2021 JENA, GERMANY—According to a statement released by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, an international team of scientists has conducted a new analysis of a tooth and tools unearthed in 1928 in Shukbah Cave, which is located in the Judaean Mountains. The artifacts had been held in a private collection until recently. Clément Zanolli of the University of Bordeaux explained that the molar belonged to a Neanderthal child of about nine years of age, making the cave the southernmost known Nea...