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700,000-year-old elephant tooth reveals a lost ecosystem shared by early humans in the Levant

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A 700,000-year-old elephant tooth recovered from the prehistoric Gesher Benot Ya'aqov site in northern Israel has enabled researchers to reconstruct a Pleistocene ecosystem featuring woodlands, wetlands, and waterways. This discovery provides a rare window into the shared environment between giant elephants and early human populations in the Levant. The tooth's preservation allows for detailed analysis of the landscape conditions at the time of human activity.

Key points

• Researchers reconstructed a Pleistocene ecosystem at Gesher Benot Ya'aqov featuring woodlands, wetlands, and waterways based on a 700,000-year-old elephant tooth recovered from the site.
• The tooth's preservation enabled detailed analysis of the landscape conditions, revealing a shared environment between giant elephants and early human populations in the Levant.

Context and limitations

The reconstruction relies on the preservation of a single elephant tooth from a specific prehistoric site in northern Israel, limiting the scope to the known fauna and flora of that specific location.

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