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 Ubeidiya | |
| Alternative name | none |
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| Location | Israel |
| Region | Jordan Valley, Jordan Rift Valley |
| History | |
| Periods | Pleistocene |
| Site notes | |
| Archaeologists | Moshe Stekelis, Georg Haas (paleontologist), Ofer Bar-Yosef, Naama Goren-Inbar; geologists Leo Picard and Nachman Shulman |
| Public access | Yes |
'Ubeidiya (Arabic: العبيدية, romanized: `Ubaydiyya; Hebrew: עובידיה), some 3 km south of the Sea of Galilee, in the Jordan Rift Valley, Israel, is an archaeological site of the early Pleistocene,[1] c. 1.5 million years ago, preserving traces of one of the earliest migrations of Homo erectus out of Africa, with (as of 2014) only the site of Dmanisi in Georgia being older.[2] The site yielded hand axes of the Acheulean type, but very few human remains.[3] The animal remains include a hippopotamus' femur bone, and an immensely large pair of horns belonging to a species of extinct bovid.
The site was discovered in 1959 and was first excavated between 1960 and 1974.
The site is distinct from nearby Tell Ubeidiya.
- ^ Negev, Avraham; Gibson, Shimon, eds. (2001). "Ubeidiya". Archaeological Encyclopedia of the Holy Land (4th ed.). New York: Continuum Publishing Group. p. 522. ISBN 0-8264-1316-1. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
- ^ Sharon, Gonen (2014). "The Early Prehistory of Western and Central Asia". In Renfrew, Colin; Bahn, Paul (eds.). The Cambridge World Prehistory, Volume 3. Cambridge University Press. p. 1359. ISBN 9781139017831.
- ^ Belmaker, Miriam; Bar-Yosef, Ofer (July 2002). "New evidence for hominid presence in the Lower Pleistocene of the Southern Levant". Journal of Human Evolution. 43 (1): 43–56. doi:10.1006/jhev.2002.0556. PMID 12098209. Retrieved 31 July 2021.