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<< Other Photo Pages >> HaYonim cave - Cave or Rock Shelter in Israel

Submitted by Andy B on Saturday, 16 July 2022  Page Views: 757

Natural PlacesSite Name: HaYonim cave Alternative Name: Me'arat HaYonim, Cave of the Pigeons
Country: Israel
NOTE: This site is 5.79 km away from the location you searched for.
Type: Cave or Rock Shelter

Latitude: 32.920089N  Longitude: 35.218264E
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HaYonim cave
HaYonim cave submitted by dodomad : A new and improved Hayonim Cave- getting ready to dig in, in a month’s time Photo Credit: Erella Hovers (Vote or comment on this photo)
A cave located in a limestone bluff about 250 meters above modern sea level, in the Upper Galilee, Israel. The site had substantial occupation during the Middle Paleolithic Mousterian period, from 250,000 years ago to 100,000 years ago, and later, during the Neolithic period and the Natufian culture around 12,000 years ago.

The Mousterian occupation of the cave included Levallois debitage and early Middle Paleolithic blade technology, as well as a series of hearths.

In Hayonim were also found wall carvings depicting symbolic shapes and animals, such a running horse dated to between 40,000-18,500 BP, possibly to the Levantine Aurignacian circa 28,000 BP, and now visible in the Israel Museum.[2][3][4][5][6] This is considered as the first art object found within the context of the Levantine Upper Paleolithic.

The Natufian occupation of the cave featured circular rooms with prepared floors, with a thick midden of lithics, groundstone objects, and worked bone. There were several hearths, and single graves located in abandoned rooms or outside inhabited rooms.

(Hebrew: מערת היונים, Me'arat HaYonim, lit. Cave of the Pigeons)
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HaYonim cave
HaYonim cave submitted by dodomad : A new and improved Hayonim Cave- getting ready to dig in, in a month’s time Photo Credit: Erella Hovers (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Re: HaYonim cave by Andy B on Saturday, 16 July 2022
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A new and improved Hayonim Cave- getting ready to dig in, in a month’s time pic.twitter.com/89qnVJ1Car

— Erella Hovers (@ErellaEhovers) July 15, 2022


https://twitter.com/ErellaEhovers/status/1547874136206102530
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Re: HaYonim cave by Andy B on Saturday, 16 July 2022
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Hayonim cave is part of a karstic cave system located on the right bank of Nahal Yitzhar in the western Galilee. The site manifests one of the longest archaeological sequences in Israel. Two excavation projects were carried out in the 1960s and the 1990s. the earlier unearthed the remains of Natufian occupations (ca. 13 thousand years ago), including structures, burials and art objects; of an Epi-Paleolithic (Kebara) occupation; and finds from the Upper Paleolithic period (Aurignacian, around 35-30 thousand years ago) that include among others personal ornaments and unique bone and antler tools. This expedition also found that the archaeological sequence extended much futher into the past.

The remains of the Middle Paleolithic period, which were excavated mainly by the second expedition to the siteת, date to ca. 250- 130 thousand years ago. In addition to the typical stone tools and faunal remains, there are also hearths present from the earliest layers. This team also exposed over a limted area the presence of Acheulo-Yabrudian assemblages, inlcuding bifacial tools and typical scrapers, from the end of the Lower Paleolithic. At Hayonim these sediments are not dated. Elesewhere in Israel they date 400-280/250 thousand years ago. Bedrock has not been reached in any of the excavation areas, so even earlier deposits may await in the cave.

Only a small number of other Levantine sites contain stratigraphic sequences that encompass the Lower to Middle Paleolithic transition. This is a crucial period in the evolutionary story of humanity, with the first emergence globally of many cultural and biological innovations (including possibly the first member of our species). It is these layers that are the focus of the new excavation project that will start in the summer 0f 2022..

More: https://archaeology.huji.ac.il/hayonim-cave
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