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Paleontologists discover 500,000-year-old elephant tusk in Israel [VIDEO]

Elephant tusk discovered in Israel | Font: EFE

The Israel Antiquities Authority announced Wednesday the discovery of a half-million-year-old complete 2.5-meter elephant tusk in the south of the country.

The find corresponds elephant Straight-cut (Palaeoloxodon antiquus), found near Kibbutz Revadim, on the southern plain Israel.

The discovery “sheds new light on the fascinating life of prehistoric humanity,” the Antiquities Authority said. Israel (AAI), whose archaeologists, paleontologists and conservators analyzed the find along with experts from Tel Aviv University and Ben Gurion University of the Negev.

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Archaeologists, paleontologists and curators from the Israel Antiquities Authority, Tel Aviv University and Ben Gurion University are working at the site where a 2.5-meter tusk of an ancient straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) was found, near Kibbutz Revadim in southern Israel. | Font: EFE

“Exceptionally well kept”

It is an “exceptionally well-preserved” tusk because it has been hidden underground for hundreds of thousands of years, suggesting that giant elephants roamed and grazed the prehistoric landscape of what is now the southern coastal plain. Israelclose to the Negev desert.

Dr. Eitan Mor, a Jerusalem-based biologist, was the first to discover the fossil when he visited the area out of curiosity after reading about it. elephants prehistoric: “To my surprise, I saw what looked like a large animal bone sticking out of the ground. When I looked closer, I realized that it was real,” he says.

Mohr was quick to report the find to the Antiquities Authority, which began an intensive two-week excavation called “Operation Elephant”.

Find in Israel
Archaeologists, paleontologists and curators from the Israel Antiquities Authority, Tel Aviv University and Ben Gurion University are working at the site where a 2.5-meter tusk of an ancient straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) was found, near Kibbutz Revadim in southern Israel. | Font: AFP

“From our previous archaeological excavations at Revadim, we knew that the site was founded during the Late Lower Paleolithic period, as we found flint and stone tools, as well as the remains of animal bones, including elephantsbut finding a tusk in such good condition is something else,” said Avi Levy, AAI prehistorian.

According to Levy, it is “the largest single fossil tusk found in the Middle East.”

such elephants with straight tusks, which was present in several places and was larger than the modern African elephant, became extinct 400,000 years ago and appeared about 800,000 years ago in the region where it lived with other large mammals such as wild cows, hippos, deer. wild boars and wild horses.

(As reported by EFE)

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Avi Levy, an archaeologist with the Israel Antiquities Authority, works at the site where a 2.5-meter tusk of an ancient straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) was discovered near Kibbutz Revadim in southern Israel | Font: EFE

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