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Archaeologists have discovered a cave used by pre-Neanderthals up to 400,000 years ago, making it one of several known sites from this little-understood period available for scientific study, CNN reported Monday, Anadolu reports.<\/p>\n
The cave, located on the outskirts of Fureidis in northern Israel, was investigated ahead of planned construction work. Archaeologists in the 1970s believed it was in use about 200,000 years ago, according to archaeologist Kobi Vardi.<\/p>\n
However, Vardi and his colleague Ron Shimelmitz, an associate professor of archeology at the University of Haifa, have now determined that it was inhabited as early as 400,000 years ago. They came to this conclusion after discovering flint tools, including hand axes, scrapers and blades, typical of the Acheulo-Jabrudian culture of pre-Neanderthal hominins living in the region at the time.<\/p>\n
Hominins refer to members of the human lineage that branched off from its last common ancestor with chimpanzees. Neanderthals, for example, are an extinct branch of the human tree, not a direct ancestor of modern humans (although modern humans have Neanderthal DNA from interbreeding).<\/p>\n
Vardi said it “was a big surprise” to discover that the cave was much older than previously believed. It would have been occupied by members of the Acheulo-Jabrudian culture, who lived throughout the Levant or Near East, between 400,000 and 250,000 years ago.<\/p>\n
The team also discovered bones from animals, including deer and gazelle, suggesting that large groups of hominins lived together in caves, hunted wild animals and used fire.<\/p>\n
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