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

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A remarkably preserved elephant tooth previously recovered from Gesher Benot Ya'aqov (GBY-NBA)—a prehistoric site in northern Israel where early humans made stone tools some 700,000 years ago—has now enabled researchers to reconstruct a lush landscap…

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  • A remarkably preserved elephant tooth previously recovered from Gesher Benot Ya'aqov (GBY-NBA)—a prehistoric site in northern Israel where early humans made stone tools some 700,000 years ago—has now enabled researchers to reconstruct a lush landscap…
  • Reported by Phys.org and published Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:00:06 UTC.

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