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 * ... that archaeologist David Ussishkin has described the Chalcolithic Temple of Ein Gedi as "a monumental edifice in terms of contemporary architecture"?


 * ... that the fossil relative of the House Sparrow Passer predomesticus is known only from two upper jaw bones?


 * ... that although Atopodentatus had a fearsome set of teeth, it was a filter feeder and not a predator?


 * ... that evidence for domesticated dogs between 10,150 and 9320 BC has been found at Hatula in modern-day Israel?


 * ...that in 1902, 23-year-old British archaeozoologist Dorothea Bate discovered a new species of dwarf elephant in a cave on the island of Cyprus?