Explore the upper society of the Stone Age in Israel

Excavation of an ancient village in northern Israel has helped archaeologists discover hundreds of artifacts that show a link between a high-class society in this village and Mesopotamia and distant civilizations. another sticky.

Archaeologist Yair Milevski, who led the project at the archaeological site of Ein Tzipori, near the city of Nazareth, told the Xinhua News Agency on December 10 that the discovery would contribute to social understanding. upstream of the Stone Age and trade activities in the area.

Stone artifacts discovered at Ein
Zippori, including a collection of colorful stone beads.

The above artifacts belong to the Chalcolithic era more than 7,000 years ago and are identified as part of the local Wadi Rabah culture.

This finding shows that the Wadi Rabah culture has a close relationship with other distant cultures in Mesopotamia and Anatolia, now in Turkey.

According to Mr. Milevsky, this type of trade is not strange, "but especially in that we have a large collection of artifacts in one place and the biggest possibility is that they carry out these exchanges by road means. We think that they conduct transactions by exchanging goods because they don't have money, and sometimes this form of communication originates from areas far away because we also find items. stone-made items originating from Anatolia and other parts of Turkey as well as other items from Syria and the northern Levant region ".

Archaeologists believe that the luxury items discovered at Ein Tzipori are owned by the upper class and this is not a religious site or region with prosperous trading activities.

Reference: Daily Mail