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Keller Îlets<p><span>La </span><a href="https://smugcat.moe/tags/grotte" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#grotte</a><span> de </span><a href="https://smugcat.moe/tags/Tinshemet" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tinshemet</a><span> se situe à mi-chemin entre </span><a href="https://smugcat.moe/tags/Jérusalem" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Jérusalem</a><span> et </span><a href="https://smugcat.moe/tags/Tel-Aviv" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tel-Aviv</a><span>, à la jonction des hauts plateaux de </span><a href="https://smugcat.moe/tags/Judée" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Judée</a><span> et de la plaine côtière méditerranéenne. Elle a été découverte dans les années 40, mais ne fait l’objet d’une </span><a href="https://smugcat.moe/tags/fouille" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fouille</a><span> approfondie que depuis 2017.<br>Fouille difficile : les </span><a href="https://smugcat.moe/tags/sédiments" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sédiments</a><span> sont cimentés, comme du </span><a href="https://smugcat.moe/tags/béton" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#béton</a><span>. Mais cela vaut le coup.<br>Les premiers résultats que viennent de publier les </span><a href="https://smugcat.moe/tags/archéologues" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#archéologues</a><span> démontrent que la grotte a bien été occupée par des </span><a href="https://smugcat.moe/tags/humains" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#humains</a><span>, il y a 100 000 ans.<br>Ils ont découvert des traces de cendres de </span><a href="https://smugcat.moe/tags/bois" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bois</a><span>, des dizaines de </span><a href="https://smugcat.moe/tags/silex" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#silex</a><span> savamment taillés, des milliers de </span><a href="https://smugcat.moe/tags/fragments" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fragments</a><span> d’</span><a href="https://smugcat.moe/tags/ocre" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ocre</a><span> de tailles, formes, textures et </span><a href="https://smugcat.moe/tags/couleurs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#couleurs</a><span> variées, des restes d’</span><a href="https://smugcat.moe/tags/aurochs" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aurochs</a><span>, d’équidés, de gazelles, de sangliers - même une phalange de rhinocéros…<br>Et, surtout, les </span><a href="https://smugcat.moe/tags/squelettes" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#squelettes</a><span> de 5 humains, dont deux quasi-complets, en position fœtale, signe qu’ils ont été enterrés lors d’une </span><a href="https://smugcat.moe/tags/sépulture" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#sépulture</a><span>.<br>C’est déjà très émouvant.<br>Avec quatre autres sépultures de la </span><a href="https://smugcat.moe/tags/région" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#région</a><span> datant de la même époque, dont une qui se trouve à seulement dix kilomètres de là, voilà le plus vieux </span><a href="https://smugcat.moe/tags/cimetière" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cimetière</a><span> humain jamais découvert.<br><br></span><a href="https://smugcat.moe/tags/Israel" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Israel</a><span> </span><a href="https://smugcat.moe/tags/archeologie" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#archeologie</a><span> <br></span><a href="https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/la-terre-au-carre/la-terre-au-carre-l-actu-du-mardi-25-mars-2025-6988075" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.radiofrance.fr/franceinter/podcasts/la-terre-au-carre/la-terre-au-carre-l-actu-du-mardi-25-mars-2025-6988075</a></p>
Radical Anthropology<p>Pretty exciting record of <a href="https://c.im/tags/ochre" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ochre</span></a> (red/orange) close to <a href="https://c.im/tags/burials" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>burials</span></a> of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Levant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Levant</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/MiddlePalaeolithic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MiddlePalaeolithic</span></a> at <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tinshemet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tinshemet</span></a></p><p>These are human populations contemporary to <a href="https://c.im/tags/Skhul" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Skhul</span></a> and <a href="https://c.im/tags/Qafzeh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Qafzeh</span></a> and we need more on the <a href="https://c.im/tags/fossils" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fossils</span></a> -- any H s/Nean admixing, cultural and genetic?</p><p><a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02110-y#Sec34" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nature.com/articles/s41562-025</span><span class="invisible">-02110-y#Sec34</span></a></p>