Israel discovers 100,000-year-old flint knapping site
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Israeli archaeologists uncovered a flint knapping site, which dates back to about 100,000 years ago, the Israel Antiquities Authority said on Tuesday.
The site is located in the Negev Desert in southern Israel, near the city of Dimona, where prehistoric human beings seemingly arrived to access the abundant natural flint, from which they made their tools.
The researchers said that the knapped flint artifacts remained right in the original place where human beings sat and created the tools.
They noted that a flint knapping technology, known as Nubian Levallois, which originated in Africa, was used in this Middle Paleolithic site.
Tracing the path of the technology helps understanding the migration routes of human beings from East Africa to the rest of the world, about 150,000 to 100,000 years ago.
Thus, the Dimona site appears to present the northernmost example of Nubian flint output found in-situ.
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