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GBY – Gesher Benot Ya’aqov

New excavation project at the Acheulian site  of Gesher Benot Ya’aqov.

For the 1990’s excavations at the site see:

http://gby.huji.ac.il/

First Reports:

Stekelis, M., 1960. The Paleolithic deposits of Jisar Banat Yaqub. GBY Bulletin of the Research Council of Israel. G9, 61–87.

GBY 2025

Recent Paper:

Ahituv, Hadar, Amanda G. Henry, Yoel Melamed, Naama Goren-Inbar, Corrie Bakels, Lyudmila Shumilovskikh, Dan Cabanes, Jeffery R. Stone, Walter F. Rowe, and Nira Alperson-Afil. Starch-rich plant foods 780,000 y ago: Evidence from Acheulian percussive stone tools.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122, no. 3 (2025): e2418661121.

 

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