While cleaning for Passover, the unnamed repentant dusted off the 2,000-year-old weapon he had stolen as a rebellious teenager from the City of David and gave it back to the antiquities authority
Olives first domesticated 7,000 years ago in Israel, study says
Archaeological evidence and fossil pollen from around the Mediterranean show villagers in the hills of the Galilee were the first to cultivate olives
Ancient art found in Basque Country changes understanding of prehistoric society
Very faded but finally noticed, the Basque region cave paintings show that distinct Paleolithic cultures survived cheek by jowl for millennia
Prehistoric southern Africans traded ostrich eggshell beads, study shows
33,000-year-old beads found in highland Lesotho up to 1,000 kilometers away from where ostriches frisked on the savanna
Biggest ivory workshop in ancient world discovered in Pakistan
More than 40 kilograms of ivory fragments unearthed in renewed excavation of the ancient port city of Bhanbhore’s Islamic period – and this was just the industry’s dumping ground
Homo erectus was sexually dimorphic, new evidence shows
Experts explain to Haaretz how mere fragments of two skulls discovered in Ethiopia can be distinguished as male and female, and did it really use both crude and clever tools at the same time?
No, Toba super-volcano didn’t all but wipe out humans 74,000 years ago
Early humans in India clearly survived the super-eruption, and there’s no evidence of large-scale animal extinctions distant from the volcano, let alone of hominins
Ancient human’s healed foot fracture shows prehistoric nursing in Israel
Unless he hopped to the hunt, this young adult couldn’t have survived its foot injury without help from the prehistoric community, archaeologists say
Israel approves extending Tel Aviv-Jerusalem line to Western Wall, over experts’ objections
Transportation Minister Bezalel Smotrich exerted heavy pressure on the committee to accept the plan, several sources say
Did Neanderthals ritually bury their dead? New evidence found in Iraq
Discoveries at ‘Paleolithic cemetery’ in Shanidar Cave tilt towards mortuary rites among Neanderthals, and loving care of the sick as well
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