{"id":13956,"date":"2025-07-24T12:08:12","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T19:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13956"},"modified":"2025-08-24T12:11:38","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T19:11:38","slug":"tinshemet-cave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/07\/24\/tinshemet-cave\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinshemet Cave"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-archaeology-paleolithic-burial-skeletons-6813bf418566721409f2c3c94b5d627c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from AP<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">A 100,000-year-old burial site in Israel is changing what we know about early humans<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>BY\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/author\/melanie-lidman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">MELANIE LIDMAN<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/5ed807b\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/8640x5757+0+1\/resize\/980x653!\/format\/webp\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F5e%2F99%2F36e0eddfc3a8f039a398585e1a2a%2F4e13ebaf31cf4b1aacbb2e9533941a37\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Volunteers work in Tinshemet Cave, where archaeologists are excavating one of the world\u2019s oldest known burial sites, dating back 100,000 years, near Shoam, Israel, Tuesday, July 15, 2025. (AP Photo\/Ariel Schalit)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>SHOHAM, Israel (AP) \u2014 Archaeologists believe they have found one of the oldest burial sites in the world at a cave in Israel, where the well-preserved remains of early humans dating back some 100,000 years were carefully arranged in pits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The findings at Tinshemet Cave in central Israel, published in an academic journal earlier this year, build on previous discoveries in northern Israel and add to a growing understanding of the origins of human burial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of particular interest to archaeologists are objects found beside the remains that may have been used during ceremonies to honor the dead and could shed light on how our ancient ancestors thought about spirituality and the afterlife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/israel-archaeology-paleolithic-burial-skeletons-6813bf418566721409f2c3c94b5d627c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at AP<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from AP A 100,000-year-old burial site in Israel is changing what we know about early humans BY\u00a0\u00a0MELANIE LIDMAN SHOHAM, Israel (AP) \u2014 Archaeologists believe they have found one of the oldest burial sites in the world at a cave in Israel, where the well-preserved remains of early humans dating back some 100,000 years were carefully [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}