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Science 11 August 2000:
Vol. 289. no. 5481, pp. 944 - 947
DOI: 10.1126/science.289.5481.944
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Pleistocene Milestones on the Out-of-Africa Corridor at Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Israel

Naama Goren-Inbar,1* Craig S. Feibel,2 Kenneth L. Verosub,3 Yoel Melamed,4 Mordechai E. Kislev,4 Eitan Tchernov,5 Idit Saragusti1

The Acheulean site of Gesher Benot Ya'aqov in the Dead Sea Rift of Israel documents hominin movements and technological development on a corridor between Africa and Eurasia. New age data place the site at 780,000 years ago (oxygen isotope stage 19), considerably older than previous estimates. The archaeological data from the site portray strong affinities with African stone tool traditions. The findings also reflect adroit technical skills and in-depth planning abilities, more advanced and complex than those of earlier archaeological occurrences in the Levant.

1 Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University, Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel.
2 Department of Anthropology, Rutgers University, 131 George Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA.
3 Department of Geology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
4 Department of Life Sciences, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel.
5 Department of Evolution, Systematics and Ecology, Hebrew University, Givat Ram, Jerusalem 91904, Israel.
*   To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: goren{at}cc.huji.ac.il

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