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IN 1959 Dr, G. Haas, of the Department of Zoology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, was sent some fossil animal bones which had been turned up by a bulldozer levelling a field near Tell Ubeidiya in the Jordan Valley near Lake Tiberias. In this material, Dr. Haas identified bones of extinct mammalia and “a human incisor and two small fragments of a hominid calvarium of very great thickness”1.
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MOLLESON, T., OAKLEY, K. Relative Antiquity of the Ubeidiya Hominid. Nature 209, 1268 (1966). https://doi.org/10.1038/2091268a0
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