Ivory from sub-Saharan Africa was imported to the Land of Israel between 1600- 600 BCE, overcoming geopolitical changes in both arenas, a new study analyzing over 1,500 artifacts and fragments excavated at 46 sites in the region has shown. “It was a very eventful millennium, but one thing remained constant, and that was the exchange of ivory, always [imported] from Africa,” said Dr. Harel Shochat from the University of Haifa, the lead author of the paper published