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700,000-year-old elephant tooth reveals lush habitat on the route out of Africa

Led excavation of the North Bridge Acheulian site; source of new dating cited in the paper

A 700,000-year-old elephant tooth is opening a window onto the world where early humans first crossed from Africa into Eurasia. The molar, found in northern Israel's Hula Valley beside stone handaxes and cleavers, belonged to a straight-tusked elephant, one of the largest land mammals of the Ice Age.

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