Tag: Archeology

A struggling people languishing across barren lands? No, evidence shows life in ancient Saudi Arabia was complex and thriving

This is the “ANTISEMITIC SCIENCE” Israel wants banned from the world’s universities and why it’s so intent on retaining only one history of the world their Biblical one

Well before the Jewish Biblical Calendar. However, Israel fully controls its archeology as it does its view of history which only begins 3,500 years ago and not 6000-8000 years. Israeli is between a rock and a hard place calling this data antisemitic. They certainly weren’t the first in the region to call it home

Trading in the Levant

It seems likely these people formed a culturally distinct group who interacted with their neighbours in the Levant to the north, a region which includes modern-day Jordan, Palestine and Syria, among others.

Our findings suggest they imported their animals and stone tool technologies. Some of the tools resemble those found at earlier sites across Jordan, which suggests they either traded or learned how to make them from further north.

Domesticated goats and sheep would have also been sourced from further afield, as there were no wild versions of these animals in the area. Everything they brought was incorporated usefully into their way of life, to suit the lands they already knew so well.

The stark monuments of conflict in Israel and Palestine – Pearls and Irritations

Tell es-Safi excavations Image: Wikimedia Commons/By Ori~ - Own work, Attribution, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8945813

Today despite the Palestinian Authority’s responsibility for archaeology and heritage in the West Bank, the Israel Antiquities Authority has taken up the management of many sites in the occupied territories. The Israeli non-profit organisation Emek Shaveh has lobbied long and consistently against the interventions of Israeli archaeology beyond its internationally recognised remit. Meanwhile leading US scholars have recently drawn attention to the substantial destruction of cultural heritage arising from Israel’s current attack on the people of Gaza.

Source: The stark monuments of conflict in Israel and Palestine – Pearls and Irritations