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General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => History => Topic started by: rangerrebew on September 03, 2018, 03:49:07 pm
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Skeletons buried in Israel's Upper Galilee reveal migration from ancient Turkey and Iran
August 20, 2018, Tel Aviv University
An international team of researchers from Tel Aviv University, the Israel Antiquities Authority and Harvard University has discovered that waves of migration from Anatolia and the Zagros mountains (today's Turkey and Iran) to the Levant helped develop the Chalcolithic culture that existed in Israel's Upper Galilee region some 6,500 years ago.
The study is one of the largest ancient DNA studies ever conducted in Israel and for the first time sheds light on the origins of the Chalcolithic culture in the Levant, approximately 6,000-7,000 years ago.
Read more at: https://phys.org/news/2018-08-skeletons-israel-upper-galilee-reveal.html#jCp