Did prehistoric man come from Haifa?

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Last update - 23:34 06/09/2007

Did prehistoric man come from Haifa?

By Fadi Eyadat

The audience, the stage and the set are ready. Only the guest of honor is missing - "and everyone is waiting for him," says Prof. Mina Evron, a researcher in the Archaeology Department of the University of Haifa and the codirector of excavations at Misliya Cave, southwest of Mt. Carmel.

The 'guest' that she and a team of researchers are seeking in the cave area is a skeleton that could represent early humans.

"We have found everything here: large quantities of the tools they used, hand-held stone tools and blades, animal bones. We know how man behaved during that period," says Evron. "All we are missing is the skeleton."

The artifacts found in the area of the cave are indicative of behavior patterns of humans who lived about 250,000 years ago, at the time of the Mousterian culture of Neanderthals in Europe.

<a href="http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/901351.html">via Haaretz.com</a>