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Researchers have uncovered a 35,000-year-old ritual complex deep within Manot Cave, located in the Western Galilee, Israel. This finding represents one of the earliest known examples of communal ritual behavior in the Levant — and possibly the world.
The discovery, detailed in a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), challenges long-held notions about the development of organized worship and suggests that ritual practices were a significant part of human social evolution during this era. Manot Cave, already known for its archaeological significance, has now provided rare insight into the early stages of collective ritualism.
Led by Dr. Omry Barzilai of the Israel Antiquities Authority and the University of Haifa, alongside Prof. Ofer Marder of Ben-Gurion University and Prof. Israel Hershkovitz of Tel Aviv University, the research sheds new light on the spiritual lives of early Upper Paleolithic hunter-gatherers.
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