Anthropology.netMar 26
Rujm el-Hiri, the “Israeli Stonehenge,” was never an isolated monument. Satellite imagery just revealed 28 more large stone circles within 25 km, rewriting the site’s archaeology entirely. #Archaeology #SouthernLevant #RemoteSensing https://www.anthropology.net/p/rujm-el-hiri-was-never-alone-satellite
Rujm el-Hiri Was Never Alone: Satellite Imagery and the Hidden Stone Circles of the Golan

A massive, enigmatic monument in the Golan Heights has been called Israel's Stonehenge for decades. It turns out it may be the best-preserved example of a regional tradition that nobody noticed.

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Jens NotroffJan 25, 2023

More #aDNA (+ #isotope) analyses on human remains from Pre-Pottery #Neolithic #NevaliCori (Turkey) & #Baja (Jordan) "reveal multiscale #PPNB #mobility and #migration across SE Anatolia and the #SouthernLevant":

X. Wang et al., @[email protected] 120(4), 2023. 🔐💵
https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2210611120

Amaury HavéJan 10, 2023

Well that escalated quickly !

(environmental evidence is discussed in another article of the same proceedings)

#ancientSouthWestAsia #ancientneareast #archeodon #SouthernLevant #ghassulian #potterytechnology