Hebrew University team says prehistoric humans near present-day Haifa used camp site as ‘home base’ for 10,000 years.
Dr. Reuven Yeshurun of Hebrew University excavating animal bones at the Ein Qashish archaeological site in northern Israel. (Prof. Erella Hovers, Hebrew University)
Neanderthals in northern Israel lived for thousands of years in open-air camps, researchers from the Hebrew University Institute of Archaeology said in a paper Wednesday. The finding contradicts the widely held belief that the ancestors of modern humans inhabited only fixed shelters, like caves and rock structures.
