Rujm el-Hiri Was Never Alone: Satellite Imagery and the Hidden Stone Circles of the Golan A massive, enigmatic monument in the Golan Heights has been called Israel's Stonehenge for decades. It turns out it may be the best-preserved example of a regional tradition that nobody noticed.

Rujm el-Hiri, the “Israeli Stonehenge,” was never an isolated monument. Satellite imagery just revealed 28 more large stone circles within 25 km, rewriting the site’s archaeology entirely. #Archaeology #SouthernLevant #RemoteSensing www.anthropology.net/p/rujm-el-hi...

Wildfire rages near Jerusalem, leading some residents of Yefe Nof to evacuate homes Fire service says several crews and planes working to quell flames, as authorities fear blaze could spread towards Yad Vashem Holocaust Museum

Wildfire rages near Jerusalem, leading some residents of Yefe Nof to evacuate homes www.timesofisrael.com/wildfire-rag... via #ClimateCrisis #SevereWeather #Heatwave #Wildfire #YefeNof #Jerusalem #SouthernLevant #FreePalestine!

More #aDNA (+ #isotope) analyses on human remains from Pre-Pottery #Neolithic #NevaliCori (Turkey) & #Baja (Jordan) "reveal multiscale #PPNB #mobility and #migration across SE Anatolia and the #SouthernLevant":

X. Wang et al., @PNASNews 120(4), 2023....

"Describing the site as the largest of its kind 'not just in #Israel but in the #SouthernLevant,' [excavation director Jacob Vardi] said in a phone interview that the [#Neolihic] #settlement would have been home to 2,000 & 3,000 people...

There aren‘t that many examples known of the fascinating Pre-Pottery #Neolithic stone #masks from the #SouthernLevant. Now there‘s one more. Amazing...