Prehistoric Tour
Nahal Me’arot Nature
Reserve
Nahal Me’arot Nature Reserve is known for the caves in which remnants of prehistoric humans, dating from 500,000 years ago to 12,000 years ago, were found.
The caves are located on the southern side of the Mearot Stream on the Carmel mountain range.
The findings in the caves revealed aspects of prehistoric humans’ way of life from different periods: Homo Erectus and Neanderthals inhabited these caves between approximately 150,000 years ago until 50,000 years ago, as did the more modern Homo sapiens, up until about 12,000 years ago.
The Upper Galilee museum of Prehistory
The Upper Galilee Museum of Prehistory, offers a wide variety of prehistoric artifacts from 780,000-6,000 years ago, collected in the Hula Valley and on the grounds of Kibbutz Maayan Baruch in the Upper Galilee. among them, a large collection of Hand-axes and an original skeleton of the first dog found buried with a human.
The Steinhardt
Museum of
Natural History
Israel National Center for Biodiversity Studies at Tel Aviv University, is a natural history museum, including both education and a research center. It is the largest and most active center in Israel of documentation and science, focusing on biodiversity research and its varied applications including nature conservation, environmental protection, agriculture
and the origin of man: anthropology and skeletons of prehistoric men, showing their evolution from "Lucy" (replica) to modern Homo sapiens.
The rare, ancient exhibits displayed here reconstruct the first, unwritten chapters of human history in this region, and shed light on the roots of human culture.
The Land of Israel played a central role in human history from its beginnings. Located at a the crossroads of three continents, it served as a “bridge” along which early humans made their way from their homeland in Africa to Asia, and Europe for the past 1.5 million years . These bold emigrants, prehistoric humans, were the earliest inhabitants of the Land.