A Huge 9000 Years Old Prehistoric Settlement was Exposed Near Jerusalem
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- A huge settlement from the Neolithic Period (New Stone Age), the largest known in Israel from that period , and one of the largest of its kind in the region, has been discovered during archaeological excavations by the Israel Antiquities Authority near Motza Junction. The project was initiated and financed by the Netivei Israel Company (the National Transoport Infrastructure company). The excavations are conducted as part of the Highway 16 Project which includes building a new entrance road to Jerusalem from the west, connecting the National Highway 1 from the Motza area to the southern part of Jerusalem ("Bayit VeGan" area), including two double tunnels.
Amongst others, thousands of arrowheads, pieces of jewelry and figurines produced by the people of the sitehave been unearthed during the excavations.
The Motza excavation site is situated 5 km west of Jerusalem, on the banks of the Sorek Stream, near water fountains and close to a fertile valley and to the ancient way that led from the Shefela (foothills) region to Jerusalem. These optimal conditions are a central reason for long-term settlement on this site, from the Epipaleolithic Period, around 20,000 years ago, to the present day.
According to Dr. Hamoudi Khalaily and Dr. Jacob Vardi, excavation directors at Motza on behalf of the Antiquities Authority, "this is the first time that such a large-scale settlement from the Neolithic Period - 9,000 years ago - is discovered in Israel. At least 2,000 - 3,000 residents lived here - an order of magnitude that parallels a present-day city!" The excavations exposed large buildings, including rooms that were used for living, as well as public facilities and places of ritual. Between the buildings, alleys were exposed, bearing evidence of the settlement's advanced level of planning. In the buildings, plaster was sometimes used for creating floors and for sealing various facilities.
According to the researchers, "In a place where people live, there are dead people as well: Burial places have been exposed in and amongst the houses, into which various burial offerings have been placed - either useful or precious objects, believed to serve the deceased in the next world. These gifts testify to the fact that already during this ancient period, the residents of this site conducted exchange relationships with faraway places. Amongst others, unique stone-made objects were found in the tombs, made of an unknown type of stone, as well as items made of obsidian (volcanic glass) from Anatolia, and sea-shells, some of which were brought from the Mediterranean Sea and some from the Red Sea. During the excavations, artistic hand-made stone bracelets in several styles were found. "Due to the size of the bracelets, we estimate that they were mainly worn by children", the researchers say. "We also found carefully crafted alabaster beads, as well as medallions and bracelets made of mother of pearl".
In all excavation areas, many flint tools manufactured on the site were unearthed, including thousands of arrowheads that were used for hunting, and possibly for fighting as well, axes used for tree-felling, and sickle blades and knives. In the settlement, built storage sheds were exposed, which contained a huge quantity of legumes, especially lentils. The fact that the seeds were preserved is astonishing in the light of the site's age. This finding is evidence of an intensive practice of agriculture. Moreover, one can conclude form it that the Neolithic Revolution reached its summit at that point: animal bones found on the site show that the settlement's residents became increasingly specialized in sheep-keeping, while the use of hunting for survival gradually decreased.
According to researchers, "the exposure of the enormous site in Motza awakens extensive interest in the scientific world, changing what has been known about the Neolithic period in that area. So far, it was believed that the Judea area was empty, and that sites of that size existed only on the other bank of the Jordan river, or at the Northern Levant. Instead of an uninhabited area from that period, we have found a complex site, where varied economic means of subsistence existed, and all this only several dozens of centimeters below the surface. All findings were recorded using an innovative three-dimensional technology, so that we can continue to research the site at the end of the excavation as well."
According to engineer Gilad Naor, Head of Projects Department at the Netivei Israel Company, "It is a huge privilege for us, as the Israel National Transport Infrastructure Company - Netivei Israel - that tomorrow's transportation infrastructure projects facilitate such special discoveries in the splendid history of our country". - Věda a technologie
Thanks for English. Great vid
Thanks for great video I love archaeology. Maybe someday I'll come to Israel
Was the site a settlement that lasted 5K years because of the bodies found were 4K years old on the 9K year old settlement? I’m dying to know what name it was called!
Please find a way to preserve the site.!!! Make the sections of highway as bridges over it. Let them keep digging. What was this place’s name?!! Why does it look like a suburb.? They worked bronze? Who were they?! Hope they can get DNA. This is so cool!!
Fantastic! יפה יפה יפה! 💖
Some "scientists " prove the bible true , while simultaneously contradicting it . Someone needs to recalibrate the carbon dating measuring system, now would be the best time to do that
9000-10000 year old Neolithic settlement in Israel? Haqi fadi. They probably dated the site using carbon dating, wishful thinking and future grant money hopes.
a great rabbie calculated the age of the universe by the holy Thorah (that gives us 33 verses about it) 700 years ago by using the "seventh is shmita" way with the verse from king David Thilim that says "G d years equals 1,000 of our human ones, and he got 42,000×number of G d years and than the age according to the jewish year we are in and got 15,000,000,000 human years the world exist that for G d are 6,000.
the rabbie discovered it by using the Thorah and Kabala, 700 years before scientists.
more on the calculation on "hidabroth".
Carbon dating is very good and accurate for these periods of times.
Don't buy what some of the religious apologists say about it, they are either ignorant or liars.
Religion makes people stupid
@ הודיה בר יוסף Shalom! Thank you for taking the time to compose a meaningful comment. I must say that I don’t agree with Kabbalah because the Torah instructs us to not add to or diminish from the word of Elohim.
@@Markver1
that's fine any how most of what came from the Kabala was originally in the Old testament, I just give another sorce to further prove my point.
so they unearthed the ancient city of tetris?
Documented accounts = 6000 yrs old
6000 yrs old
languages, written accounts, go back no further than about 5000 years. It is a laugh when dating methods and "peoples studies" and "opinions" come up with far fetched dates that cannot relate to anything.
9000 years old?
One archeologist said "9,000", the other "10,000" & "4,000". Simply pathetic.
Yes, 9000 years old.
Yep 9000 years old
I was suspicious of that too. The field-book to archaeology in Israel in it’s earliest days was the Bible. After the religion of evolution became the main focus of science in universities the Bible became a footnote reference when it was convenient. Of course this is only a generalization that I am making from my own viewpoint.
Levant? Should that not be Israel?
The Levant is a part of the middle east which includes Israel, Jordan, Lebanon and western Syria
@@ronr9797 as far as I can see this find was in Israel not this region... but perhaps it is not in Israel 😏
@@ronr9797 Where's Palestine????
@@ronr9797 In the minds of the historically literate ones.
levant, palestine, which haven't been in use since before 1946-48 and those that do still use it are haters of Israel and God, because they know it is the land of God and the Bible