Boker Tachtit appears to have been a sort of waystation for great migration waves of modern humanity out of Africa to Eurasia via the land that is today Israel. Their bones have also long since turned into dust, but the tools there – defined as Initial Upper Paleolithic tool culture – are typical of Homo sapiens, the archaeologists say. No bones remain because the high concentration of gypsum in the soil decomposes the bones, but the stone tool set found there is typical of Neanderthals.Īt about the same time, a wave of migration by anatomically modern humans reached a site known as Boker Tachtit, by Kibbutz Sde Boker, as reported in Haaretz. Neanderthal replica (Helms Museum in Hamburg): Did they like what they saw when they met us? Credit: ULRICH PERREY / AFPĪround 50,000 years ago, a group of Neanderthals was living in the Negev Desert, near today’s town of Ofakim.
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