Photographs of deer bones found in a cave in the Galilee. (photo credit: Courtesy Hebrew University)
Posted on 05/07/2018 2:55:34 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Deer bones found in a cave in the Galilee have pointed to a unique cultural group that may have arrived in the region from Europe between 35,000 and 38,000 years ago. Newly published research regarding this group in the Levant (Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria), points toward distinct cultural entities with distinguishing characteristics already existing in the early stages of human history... The study examined remains of ancient Levantine deer bones, found in the Hayonim Cave in the Western Galilee, and discovered a cultural symbol: bones with specific grooves appearing in a fixed area. The study posits that this may have been a unique symbol of the local ancient culture that acted as a marker for the group -- perhaps sewn into a garment or worn as a pendant to differentiate the group’s members from other groups living in the same area. This is in contrast to other objects found in the area, used for everyday activities, such as hunting, preparing food or processing skins. Other remains found, which included stone vessels, bone vessels and horns, are similar to remains found of an ancient culture in Western and Central Europe that existed during the years of the Levantine period. Thus, there is a working assumption that the group arrived here from Europe, lasted a relatively short time and then disappeared or merged with the local cultural entities.
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Photographs of deer bones found in a cave in the Galilee. (photo credit: Courtesy Hebrew University)
Thanks, I’ll share this with Doc Coyoteman
Vikings were first to North America, now they were also there. Those rascals sure got around. Their home villages must of been terrible, nobody ever just was a homebody.
35KYA there were no vikings. Not even proto-Indo-europeans. Indo-europeans must’ve been at that point still mixed with other caucasian and maybe also east asian groups in one big group
I hope you’re joking. There’s always been vikings. Pretty sure you can trace them back right to Adam and Eve heh.
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