A fossilized tooth from a large prehistoric elephant that after roamed the Mediterranean Sea has emerged from an excavation website in southern Israel, which archaeologists say was a uncommon perception into the lives of the area’s early inhabitants.
The 2.5-metre-long tooth from the traditional straight-pointed elephant (Paleoloxodon anticus) is estimated to be about half 1,000,000 years outdated and was present in an space the place stone and flint instruments and the stays of different animals have been recovered.
“This is the largest complete fossil ever found at any prehistoric site in Israel or the Near East,” the director of excavations, Israel Antiquities Authority’s Prehistory Avi Levi, stated in an announcement.
The now extinct species, a lot bigger than African elephants, had been a part of the area’s wealthy fauna, which included wild cattle and horses, deer, wild boars and hippopotamuses and had been hunted by people for meals and presumably for symbolic functions. it was accomplished.
“We anticipate that the discovery of the new tooth in a clearer archaeological context will shed light on this issue,” stated Dr Omri Barzilai from the Israel Antiquities Authority.
Once the conservation course of is full, the tooth might be displayed in a everlasting exhibition corridor on the National Complex for the Archaeology of Israel in Jerusalem.
With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
