8,000-year-old home, hippo bones found near Tel Aviv area

The Israel Antiquities Authority said on Monday that Israelian archaeologists have found fossils of an 8,000-year-old building as well as a hippopotamus bones and pottery shards in the Tel Aviv area, including a hunting tool from the Middle Paleolithic period or about 100.000 years ago.

The earliest discovery in the Tel Aviv region was the fossils, found on the banks of the Yarkon river .Ayelet Dayan, who led the excavations said “This discovery is both important and surprising to researchers of the period.” He further said “For the first time we have encountered evidence of a permanent habitation that existed in the Tel Aviv region about 8,000 years ago.”
These fossils places it in the Neolithic period when man went from a nomadic existence to living in permanent settlements.