Archeological Discovery: Evidence of Olives Consumed in Israel over 5,000 Years Ago

Judy Siegel-Itzkovich : Feb 4, 2021
Israel365News.com

"The latest discovery completes for us the sequence of use of olive wood, from the use of this wood for heating, through the production of oil about 7,000 years ago to our findings, in which olive was used for food.” -lead researcher Dr. Ehud Galili of the Zinman Institute of Archeology at the University of Haifa

[Israel365News.com] Almost every pantry has bottles of olive oil because it is monounsaturated and the most healthful type of oil available. Its popularity in the Middle East, however, is far from being new. Now, the earliest evidence—from about 6,600 years ago—for the production of olives for table food and not only for oil has been discovered by Israeli archaeologists at a site that is now underwater off the southern coast of Haifa. Throughout the Mediterranean basin, the olive tree is considered an emblematic and economically important species. To identify the use of the olive pits—most of them intact—that were found, a study was conducted by a multidisciplinary team of archaeologists and botanists from 11 research institutions in Israel and abroad. (Image: Pixabay)

The evidence was found at the flooded Chalcolithic site called Carmel Forging. The Israeli-led researchers have just published their study in the prestigious journal Scientific Reports… Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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