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With some of the earliest signs of plant cultivation; and, brushwood dwellings. Ohalo II is an miraculous 23,000 year old archaeological site, on the sea of Galilee. It was best preserved under the last glacial maximum (LGM)
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > Located in Israel, on the SW shore of the Sea of Galilee Ohalo II is renowned for its role in providing valuable insights into prehistoric human life. And, that is carbon dated to 23000BP. (1) Some 11000 years, before the onset…
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Eustatic rise of sea levels and possibly a 10 story tsunami smashed and flooded a early neolithic village Atlit Yam
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > A submerged neolithic site is located off the coast of Atlit, Israel, in the Mediterranean SeaIt made the news, while surveying the area for shipwrecks, in 1984. (1) The site has shown the earliest known evidence for an agro-pastoral-marine subsistence system,…
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The Huleh (or Hula) neolithic site is archaeological findings & remains in the Hula Valley. Located in the northern part of Israel
< home # store # services # articles # game # app #contact > This region was once a shallow freshwater lake but was drained in the early 20th century to reduce the incidence of malaria. After the draining of the Hula Lake, archaeological excavations revealed evidence of ancient settlements dating back to the neolithic…
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Gilgal Refaim is a large megalithic ceremonial monument on the Golan Heights, built primarily during the Late Chalcolithic to Early Bronze Age, several thousand years after the PPNA
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> The site lies on the central Golan Heights, east of the Sea of GalileeApproximately 30–40 km east of the Jordan Valley. Roughly 80 km east of Haifa.Rather than belonging to the Mediterranean woodland zone around Haifa or Upper Galilee,…
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Architecture, Burials, Hunting, Exchange & the Neolithic Landscape of Central Israel. Nahal Yarmuth 38: A PPNB Burial Site in the Hills
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Nahal Yarmuth 38 is a small but exceptionally informative Middle Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (MPPNB) site in central Israel, near modern Beit Shemesh. Excavated in 2017–2018 by a joint Tel Aviv University–Israel Antiquities Authority team, the site covers only about…
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Munhata: A PPNB Village on the Jordan Valley’s Wetland Frontier
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Munhata is one of the particularly important, but still surprisingly under-published, Neolithic sites of northern Israel. It captures an unusual moment in the development of village architecture: rectangular PPNB buildings, circular courtyard architecture, craft installations, hunting, plant processing, figurines,…
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Tel Shor, a wetland settlement, in the western Jezreel Valley, has archaeological evidence presently publishing it in the Early Bronze Age. With additional material from the Late Chalcolithic onward
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Also known as Tell Thorah, Tel Shor is a small archaeological mound in the western Jezreel Valley of northern Israel. It lies at approximately 32.65° N, 35.17° E, in the central-western part of the valley, about 1 km north…
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Hurvat Husam: A Small Pre-Pottery Neolithic B Settlement in Northern Israel
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Hurvat Husam is a relatively small but important Pre-Pottery Neolithic B (PPNB) site in Lower Galilee, northern Israel. Although much less famous than sites such as Jericho, Kfar HaHoresh, or Yiftahel, it contributes valuable evidence for the spread of…
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Tel Hazor & the Neolithic: An Important Clarification. It is not primarily a Neolithic site
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Today, Tel Hazor is famous as the largest Bronze Age and Iron Age tell in Israel, occupied mainly from the Early Bronze Age (c. 2800 BCE) through the Iron Age. The great palaces, temples, fortifications, and cuneiform archives all…
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Ein el-Jarba (Jezreel Valley, Israel): An Early Chalcolithic (Wadi Rabah) Settlement
<home # start here # guides # builds # services # shop # about # categories> Ein el-Jarba is one of the best-studied Early Chalcolithic (Wadi Rabah culture) settlements in northern Israel. Although it is sometimes discussed alongside Late Neolithic sites, archaeologists generally classify its principal occupation as Early Chalcolithic (6th millennium BC), representing the…