The Leakey Foundation

07.09.20

Naturally perforated shells one of the earliest adornments in the Middle Paleolithic

Ancient humans deliberately collected perforated shells in order to string them together as beads, according to a study supported in part by The Leakey Foundation and published July 8, 2020 in the open-access journal PLOS ONE.

06.26.18

From the Field: Mae Goder-Goldberger, Israel

From the Field

Mae Goder-Goldberger, from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, was awarded a Leakey Foundation Research Grant during our spring 2017 cycle for her project entitled "The site of Far'ah II, western Negev, and the MP-UP transition."

01.26.18

Earliest Modern Human Outside of Africa Unearthed in Israel

A jawbone complete with teeth recently discovered by at Israel's Misliya cave has now been dated to 177,000-194,000 years ago. The finding indicates that modern humans were present in the Levant at least 50,000 years earlier than previously thought.

03.21.17

Grantee Spotlight: Ron Shimelmitz

Grantee Spotlight

Ron Shimelmitz is a research fellow at the Zinman Institute of Archaeology, University of Haifa. He was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant during our summer 2016 cycle for his project entitled "New excavations at Skhul Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel."

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Naturally perforated shells one of the earliest adornments in the Middle Paleolithic

From the Field: Mae Goder-Goldberger, Israel

Earliest Modern Human Outside of Africa Unearthed in Israel

Grantee Spotlight: Ron Shimelmitz