Israel
The Nesher Ramla site: a third way between Neandertals and modern humans?
Fragments representing people who lived just before Skhūl and Qafzeh seem outside the expectations for these “early modern humans” or for Neandertals.
![Archaeologists working on a large, terraced excavation area under a white canopy.](/content/images/size/w1460/2022/12/nesher-ramla-yossi-zaidner-conversation-overview.jpg)
Fossil profile: Skhūl 1 and the mixing of populations
A child's skull from Mount Carmel gives an occasion to look at the history of ideas about population mixture.
![Skhūl 1 calvaria with information](/content/images/size/w1460/2022/02/skhul-1-calvaria-artcard-2021.png)
The Manot 1 skull and how we now look at Neandertal ancestry in early modern humans
The discovery of a 54,000-year-old skull in Israel sheds light on the dispersal of modern humans and their contacts with Neandertals.
![Manot Cave with sloping sediment, archaeologists, and lights](/content/images/size/w1460/2022/01/manot-cave-excavation-wikipedia.jpg)
Becoming human: Presentation on Mount Carmel sites and cultural origins
A visit to Israel occasions reflections on the cultural evolution of humans and Neandertals.
![John Hawks in front of a wadi with a limestone massif and caves in the distance.](/content/images/size/w1460/2022/11/johnhawks-mount-carmel-becoming-human-still.jpg)
Remarkable preservation of an Acheulean campsite at Gesher Benot Ya'aqov
My notes on a publication describing evidence for cooking and eating fish, crabs, and plants