Gesher Benot Ya’aqov
GBY – Gesher Benot Ya’aqov
New excavation project at the Acheulian site of Gesher Benot Ya’aqov.
First Reports:
Recent Papers:
Ahituv, Hadar, Amanda G. Henry, Yoel Melamed, Naama Goren-Inbar, Corrie Bakels, Lyudmila Shumilovskikh, Dan Cabanes, Jeffery R. Stone, Walter F. Rowe, and Nira Alperson-Afil. “Starch-rich plant foods 780,000 y ago: Evidence from Acheulian percussive stone tools.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122, no. 3 (2025): e2418661121.
Allué, E., Goren-Inbar, N., Melamed, Y., Urban, B., & Alperson-Afil, N. (2026). Paleoenvironmental and behavioral insights into firewood selection by early Middle Pleistocene hominins. Quaternary Science Reviews, 382, 109973. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/J.QUASCIREV.2026.109973
GBY excavaion 2025 figures
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