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1 .This is Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber. This'll just take a minute.
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2 .In the Bible, Abraham was impressed by how well his future daughter-in-law Rebecca cared for their camels.
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3 .The animals have long been a crucial part of life in the region, opening it to trade with lands as far as India.
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4 .Camels were likely domesticated in the Arabian peninsula about three thousand years ago.
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5 .But archaeological evidence suggested that camels arrived in the Levant well after the biblical patriarchs, theoretically about 2,500 to 3,000 years ago.
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6 .Now, researchers at Tel Aviv University have nailed that date.
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7 .The finding is in the peer-reviewed publication Tel Aviv: Journal of the Institute of Archaeology of Tel Aviv University.
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8 .Israel's oldest camel bones are found at ancient copper mines in the Arava Valley, between the Dead Sea and the gulf.
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9 .The research team used radiocarbon dating and other techniques to precisely pin down the layers in which camel bones are found at a number of sites.
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10 .The oldest domesticated camels at all sites dated to the last third of the 10th century B.C.E.
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11 .That date is centuries after the time of the Patriarchs.
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12 .This analysis gives more support to the theory that Bible accounts were written down long after the events described might have occurred.
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13 .Thanks for the minute, for Scientific American 60-Second Science. I'm Cynthia Graber.
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