Archaeologists uncover 12,000-year-old settlement

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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/08/01/1059480520876.html

Israeli archaeologists said today they had discovered a 12,000-year-old neolithic settlement west of Jerusalem which they believe is the largest of the period ever discovered in the Holy Land.

The settlement, in Motza 5km west of Jerusalem, was home to 2,000 people and dates to 9,500 BC, Hammadid Khalife, head of the archeological team, told AFP.

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Some more information on this.

And in late breaking news we heard that one of the unusually scattered and fragmented skeletal remains from what has now become know as the Pastelin tribe was found to be wearing an intricate waistcoat made up of tubes filled with a mixture of iron pyrites and sulphur.

Nearby, another skeletal body seemingly of differing tribal origins, dubbed the Sharonia people seems to have died in the process of bludgeoning a child of the Pastelin tribe to death.

Scientists have theorized that this may be giving some insight to the origins of the Israeli / Palestinian conflict.

Please don't ask me for a link on that one