Pre-Neanderthal 'time capsule' cave from 400,000 years ago unveiled south of Haifa

Archaeologists revealed a sealed prehistoric cave at Fureidis on the Carmel Ridge dating between 400,000 and 250,000 years ago, exposed by an Ayalon Highways salvage excavation. The site preserved handaxes, scrapers, and bones of fallow deer, gazelle, ancient horses, and wild cattle, signs of hunting and processing by hominid groups who lived in larger communities than earlier humans. Researchers called it the only Lower Paleolithic 'pristine' site of its kind on the Carmel.