A human evolution exhibit in Israel
The biological anthropologist Israel Hershkovitz has a nice essay in Nature discussing a new exhibit at the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History’s Dan David ...
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A trip to Israel, presenting about ‘Time’
I’ll be in Israel this week to present a lecture for a symposium of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The theme of the symposium is, “Time”, and...
Link: Looking at the Misliya Cave maxilla
Bruce Bower last week had a nice article about the new Misliya Cave dating in Science News: “An ancient jaw pushes humans’ African departure back in time”.
The Manot 1 skull and how we now look at Neandertal ancestry in early modern humans
Israel Hershkovitz and colleagues report in Nature today on a partial cranial vault from Manot Cave, Israel. The key arguments in their paper are well-expres...
Photo: Amud Cave in the rain
I hiked to Amud Cave today with Clive Finlayson. It’s a short hike on a well-marked trail, up the Wadi Amud. The word means “pillar”, and you can see the dra...
Photo: Qesem Cave
I’m writing from Israel this week, where I am visiting a number of archaeological sites. Yesterday Avi Gopher and Ran Barkai generously gave me a tour of Qes...
Photo: Qafzeh 11 and Qafzeh 9
This week I’ve been at the Vienna Natural History Museum to do some work. It’s one of the great museums of the world, and they have a new human evolution exh...
The fishy spaces of the Middle Pleistocene
In Science this week, Nira Alperson-Afil and colleagues report on recent excavations at Gesher Benot Ya’aqov, Israel. I saw some of this research presented a...
New Paleolithic cave in Israel
Few details, as work is just underway. No dates. This is from a story in the Independent (UK):