Tunnel Digging an Aquired Talent to PA Thinking from 100 Million Years Ago

Nadene Goldfoot                                                

                                       11 thousand years ago the world looked like this.

This is hilarious!  It's what happens when people are not well educated.  The Palestinians are claiming having lived in Israel 100 million years ago!  Maybe it's just an error in translation from Arabic to English, but I don't think so.  It's an error in understanding the universe, our planet, and people.  .  

" As the IDF searches for tunnels near Gaza, the Hebrew University’s Center for Cave Exploration in the Geology Department stumbled across the deepest and longest underground cave and tunnel in Israel, descending to a depth of 187 meters" which is 613.517 feet.  There are 5,280 feet to a mile, so it's 0.11609848 of a mile or about 1/12th of a mile.  In other words,  it's pretty deep.    It's near the Lebanon border.  

"Much to the delight of the Palestinian Authority (PA living in Judea and Samaria which they refer to as the West Bank) , the tunnel’s discovery proves for them that Palestinians lived in Israel 100 million years ago, digging tunnels even way back then.  
                                                            

                     Abraham 2000 BCE, begat Isaac who begat Jacob Their frame of reference of time is quite mixed up.  Abraham, father of both the Arabs and the Jews, was born in the 2nd millennium before the common era or BCE.  That's only 4,000 years ago, which would have been in 2000 BCE.
                                                           

           Esau and his twin, Jacob ( Aka Israel),  sons of Isaac
Joseph, son of Jacob and Rachel, was born about 1700 BCE.  Moses was born in the year 1391 BCE.  King David was born in 1010 BCE.  King Solomon was born in 961 BCE.  Mohammad was born in 570 CE, of the common era.  

Going back 100 million years ago?  That would be in the Cretaceous Period when dinosaurs started to become extinct starting in 142 million years ago till 65 million years ago.  So 100 million years would have been in the middle of that period.  Homo sapiens hadn't come on board as yet.  Homo Sapiens are humans as we know us to be.  Humans came along about 5.3 million years ago in the Pliocene epoch.  
                                                            

 Humanoid types split from the chimps early on during this time.  The epoch ended 2.6 million years ago.  

We are living in the Holocene epoch which started 11.7 thousand years ago and goes till the present day.  Early human beings started at this time along with mammoths.  Think of Cave man.  This is when they were alive.  
                                                        

The UN was surprised when inspectors found ancient explosives and primitive Hamas rockets hidden inside the cave.  They gave them to Hamas.  Age was not mentioned, but I bet they were made between 2001 and 2005.   Rockets were first fired into Israel from Gaza in 2001.  By 2005 Jews left Gaza in the name of peace so that Palestinians could take care of themselves and enjoy it.  

Resource:  http://www.jewishpress.com/blogs/muqata/israels-deepest-tunnel-found-near-lebanon/2014/08/03/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/history_of_the_earth/Cretaceous
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/history_of_the_earth/Holocene

Haifa Caves That Were Home for Neanderthals

Nadene Goldfoot
A group of 4 caves near Haifa on the western slope of Mount Carmel were found to be home for Neanderthals and early anatomically modern humans who lived there 15,000 years ago.  They lived side by side as part of the same culture.  We're going back when humans evolved over a period of 500,000 years.

The caves have evidence of burials, early stone architecture and show how man went from the hunter to the gatherer lifestyle and on to agriculture and animal raising.  They found remains of stone houses and pits which are evidence of a settlement.

It took 90 years of excavation of these sites to find all this evidence, so this must have started in about 1922.  They hope to find more information.  UNESCO says the site provides "an archive of early human life in southwest Asia."

This is now the 7th world Heritage Site in Israel, which is part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.  It's called the Nahal Me'arot Nature Reserve.  This place provides a chronological framework when humans were developing.

Other sites are the Masada, the Old city of Akko and the White City of Tel Aviv.

Genetic studies show that modern Europeans have between 1% to  4 % of their genes from Neanderthals who died off 28,000 years ago.

Being Jewish and having the hobby of genealogy, one hits the stone wall  in trying to go back very far, and it's been hard to find information on my father's line, so I have resorted to dna testing.  Through 23& Me in California, I found out that my chromosomes showed that I had 2.9% of Neanderthal in my genes.  I was in the 93% tile of my other matches!  The average Eastern European only has 2.5%  Lucky me!  Through familytreedna in Houston, my brother was found to have the Q haplogroup of Ydna, Q1b1a to be specific or Q-L245, which looks like a mathematical equation of where we came from.  At first we were led to believe this origin was from the Khazarian Empire, which lies close to Russia.  Now with further testing, findings are showing that some of our group have the marker to be from somewhere close to Ur, which lies in today's Iraq. It's where our forefather, Abraham came from.   I'm getting closer to those caves!

There are other famous caves with remains of Neanderthal man.  One such cave is the Shanidar Cave in Iraq, of all places.  Shanidar is the name of the elder male found there.  Other caves of famous note are the La Ferrassie Caves in SW France and a cave in northern Spain, El Castillo, which goes back more than  40,800 years with a painting showing hands, and the hands must be handprints and they look exactly like ours today.  It is the oldest ever found.

Being there are many caves scattered about the world that contained Neanderthals, I'm wondering if my friend, a geneticist PhD  isn't right in his theory that man came from several sources and wasn't just from one single man.  That brings up even more questions, like how did that happen?

I can't declare that these caves were our caves of origin, though.  Our Q branch on the tree of man originally came from Siberia, Mongolia and parts of Turkey and we hooked up with Native Americans way back then who are on another Q twig.  There must be caves that held similar development in those places as well.  However, our twig  had migrated towards the Middle East and evidently settled in somewhere there just in time for all the history to start taking place, like Abraham's family's move there.  It looks like some stayed in Turkey.  Our Q twig makes up 5% of the Jewish male population of today.

I'm so glad that I lived in Haifa from 1980-1981 when I made aliyah to Israel.  It was there that I attended a 10 month long ulpan for teachers to retrain and work in Israel.  It is such a beautiful city, on the Mediterranean Sea, and reminded me a little of Portland for that reason.  At least I was able to walk to the beach and enjoy all the life there, from eating Shwarmas in the kiosks to the aromatic flowers of brilliant colors all in bloom.  I just wish I knew about those caves!  Hmmm, I wonder if my oil painting prowess isn't from my Neantherthal cousins!

Resource: Esther Hecht's article in October/November 2012 Hadassah magazine page 27.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2210403/Neanderthals-human-lived-side-Middle-eastern-caves-interbred-research-finds.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanidar_Cave
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0615/Cave-art-suggests-that-Neanderthals-weren-t-such-Neanderthals-after-all-video