700,000-year-old elephant tooth reveals the landscape that sustained early humans in the Levant A well-preserved elephant tooth from northern Israel has given researchers a picture of the land where early humans lived 700,000 years ago. The tooth came from Gesher Benot Ya’aqov, a prehistoric site in the Jordan Rift Valley, south of today’s Hula Valley. Early humans made stone tools there... More info: https://archaeologymag.com/2026/10/700000-year-old-elephant-tooth-in-the-levant/ Follow @archaeology #archaeology #elephants #Pleistocene #acheulian