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SUBMITTER: Goren-Inbar N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC122386 | biostudies-literature | 2002 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Goren-Inbar Naama N Sharon Gonen G Melamed Yoel Y Kislev Mordechai M
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20020201 4
The Acheulian site of Gesher Benot Ya'aqov (Israel) has revealed a unique association of edible nuts with pitted hammers and anvils. Located in the Dead Sea rift, on the boundary between the Arabian and African plates, the site dates to the Early-Middle Pleistocene, oxygen isotope stage 19. In a series of strata, seven species of nuts, most of which can be cracked open only by a hard hammer, were uncovered. Five of the species are extant terrestrial nuts, and two are aquatic nuts now extinct in ...[more]