ABSTRACT
Open-air Early Pleistocene site located in the northern Jordan Valley (Israel), south of the city of Tiberias. Early Acheulean and Developed Oldowan stone tools, a rich Late Villafranchian (Early Pleistocene) faunal assemblage, and hominid fossils have been recovered from this site. 'Ubeidiya was excavated between 1960 and 1974 by M. Stekelis, E. Tchernov, and O. Bar-Yosef, and later (1988–1994) by a French-Israeli-American team. The 'Ubeidiya Formation consists of four major beds (Li, Fi, Lu, Fu) representing two lacustrine-fluvial cycles that formed around a delta where a seasonal stream (Wadi Yavneel) flowed into the lake that covered the floor of the Jordan Valley. The most significant stratigraphic feature of the site is an anticline (upward bending of strata) that tilts the 'Ubeidiya Formation sediments ca. 70° to the horizontal plane.
