Tag Archive for 'Qesem cave'

Cut marks on tortoise humerus from Qesem Cave. Image credit: Ruth Blasco et al.

Early Humans Ate Tortoises 400,000 Years Ago

Feb 2, 2016 by News Staff

A team of archaeologists in Israel has uncovered evidence of tortoise bones at the Middle Pleistocene (420,000 to 300,000 years ago) site of Qesem Cave,...

The 300,000-year-old hearth discovered in Qesem cave, near Rosh HaAyin, Israel. Scale is 1 m. Image credit: R. Shahack-Gross et al.

Archaeologists Unearth 300,000-Year-Old Hearth in Israel

Jan 28, 2014 by Enrico de Lazaro

An international team of archaeologists has uncovered a large, stone-lined hearth – dating to about 300,000 years ago – in a cave near the modern...