Israel: archaeologists discover Leopard trap with 5,000 years
May resemble just a bunch of rocks piled in the middle of a harsh desert in Israel, but archaeologists have discovered that this primitive structure is actually a trap with 5,000 years used to catch leopards.It was originally thought that the trap was much more recent, but the revelation of his true age suggests that farmers in the region were far more advanced than initially thought.The trap was found in the Negev desert in the South of the country, by researchers from the geological survey of Israel. Wasn't far from another cluster of similar stones, with little more than 1,600 years old, which led scientists to believe that had the same age.However, a sophisticated test able to date materials based on the amount of residual radiation that they absorbed over thousands of years has shown that these slabs were in place nearly 2,000 years before the Foundation of Rome.At least 50 similar traps have been found in the Negev region, but this is the first to suggest the extreme age of this type of construction, which is as old as the first agricultural civilizations in the world."The most interesting thing is the antiquity of these carnivorous traps, which is totally unexpected," said Naomi Door, co-author of a study on the traps. "They look like a pile of stones, it takes a good look and also some digging around to find out what it is."According to the investigator, quoted by Live Science, when the animal entered the structure and pull the bait, a rope connected to a slab close it so that the cat was trapped inside the trap.Although it is referred to as a trap of leopards, the framework could also be used to catch foxes, wolves or hyenas. Believed to have been an essential method for old farmers manage to keep predators away from their herds, and that proves that there is much that animals have complaints of the human being.
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