Tsunami swept Israel coast 10,000 years ago, may have erased signs of human life [The Times of Israel, December 2020]

Title:

Tsunami swept Israel coast 10,000 years ago, may have erased signs of human life 

 

Author:

Stuart Winer

 

Published:

The Times of Israel, 24 December 2020

https://www.timesofisrael.com/evidence-found-of-huge-tsunami-that-swept-israels-coastline-10000-years-ago/

 

From the article:

Researchers estimate wave was 50-130 feet high and reached 1.5-3.5 kilometers inland, possibly explaining absence of signs of human habitation in area south of Haifa.

 

Tel Aviv University & University of Haifa - World’s 1st necklace? Prehistoric painted shells, once on twine, found in Israel

Title:
World’s 1st necklace? Prehistoric painted shells, once on twine, found in Israel

Author:
Amanda Borschel-Dan

Published:
The Times of Israel, 9 July 2020
https://www.timesofisrael.com/worlds-1st-necklace-prehistoric-painted-shells-once-on-twine-found-in-israel/

From the article:
Experiments on 160,000-year-old clam shell fossils in northern caves indicate they are earliest examples of shell beads strung for display on the human body, Israeli scientists say.

Sometime around 160,000 to 120,000 years ago, early man began to string together painted shells and display them, according to a new international, interdisciplinary study published in the open-sourced PLOS One journal this week.

University of Haifa - Israeli researchers find first evidence ancient humans ate snakes, lizards [The Times of Israel, 12 June 2020]

Title:
Israeli researchers find first evidence ancient humans ate snakes, lizards: University of Haifa archaeologists say residents of Mount Carmel snacked on reptiles some 15,000 years ago, possibly as part of transition to sedentary lifestyle

Author:
Luke Tress

Published:
The Times of Israel, 12 June 2020
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-researchers-find-first-evidence-ancient-humans-ate-snakes-lizards/

From the article:
Israeli researchers have found evidence that ancient humans ate snakes and lizards as a regular part of their diet, in what they said was a first finding of its kind.

See also this scholarly article published in Scientific Reports, 2020:
Squamate bone taphonomy: A new experimental framework and its application to the Natufian zooarchaeological record by Ma'ayan Lev, Mina Weinstein-Evron & Reuven Yeshurun