10,000-year-old House Uncovered Outside Jerusalem

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The Times of Israel reports that the house, along with a 6000 year old cultic temple, were found ahead of a planned road expansion.

10,000-year-old house uncovered outside Jerusalem

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The Israel Antiquities Authority, together with the Netivei Israel Company that is carrying out the highway expansion, invited the public to visit the excavation site in Eshtaol

With range of dramatic finds in excavations ahead of highway expansion, archaeologists trace 10 millennia of human development.

“Whoever built the house did something that was totally innovative because up until this period [local human groups] migrated from place to place in search of food. Here we have evidence of man’s transition to permanent dwellings, and that in fact is the beginning of the domestication of animals and plants; instead of searching out wild sheep, ancient man started raising them near the house,” researchers said in a statement.

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