El-`Ubeidiya (al-`Ubaydiyya; אל-עובידיה; العبيدية), some 3 km south of Lake Tiberias, in the Jordan Rift Valley, is an archaeological site of the Pleistocene, ca. The Sea of Galilee, also Sea of Genneseret, Lake Kinneret or Lake Tiberias (Hebrew ים כנרת) (Arabic بحيرة طبريا) Great Rift ValleyThe Jordan Rift Valley (الغور Al-Ghor or Al-Ghawr) is an elongated depression located in modern-day Israel, Jordan, the The Pleistocene ('plaɪstəsin is the epoch from 18 million to 10000 years BP covering the world's recent period 1. 5 million years ago, preserving traces of the earliest migration of Homo erectus out of Africa. Evolution of the genus ''Homo'' took place in Africa First Homo erectus migrated out of Africa across Eurasia beginning about 2 million years ago Homo erectus ( Latin: "upright man" is an extinct species of the genus Homo, believed to have been the first hominin The site yielded hand axes of the Acheulean type. A handaxe is a bifacial Lower and Middle Paleolithic core Tool. Acheulean (also spelled Acheulian,) is the name given to an Archaeological industry of Stone tool manufacture associated with prehistoric Hominins
The site was discovered in 1959 and excavated between 1960 and 1974, mainly under by Ofer Bar-Yosef and Naama Goren-Inbar. Ofer Bar-Yosef (born 1937 is an Israeli Archaeologist whose main field of study has been the Palaeolithic period
References
- Radiometric Dating of the Ubeidiya Formation, Jordan Valley, Israel Nature 242, 186 - 187 (16 March 1973)[1]
- Evidence for earlier date of 'Ubeidiya, Israel, hominid site Nature 299, 344 - 347 (23 September 1982) [2]
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