Researchers in Israel say AI technology has allowed them to identify mankind’s earliest known use of fire. A team from the Weizmann Institute Science analyzed invisible “molecular signals” in flint ...

Flint tools found at the Evron Quarry. Israel scientists from the Weizmann Institute of Science, using an advanced, innovative method they developed to detect nonvisual traces of fire, have ...

“The reason we chose Evron Quarry was that it uses the same kind of flint they had used in the previous study,” says Chazan. “But there was just no reason to think there would be evidence of ...

Evron Quarry, located in the Western Galilee, is an open-air archaeological site that was first discovered in the mid-1970s. During a series of excavations that took place at that time and were ...

Researchers used it on 26 flint tools excavated from the Evron Quarry in the northwest of Israel in the 1970s. Using the program, they could then date the site to between 800,000 and one million ...