09/2026 Dr. Ma’ayan Lev discusses small prey exploitation at el-Hemmeh at the UISPP World Congress

At the XXI UISPP World Congress in Poznań, Poland, Dr. Ma'ayan Lev talked about how early sedentary settlements at the PPNA site of el-Hemmeh (Jordan) fostered synanthropic communities in her talk, "Small prey exploitation and emerging synanthropic communities at the PPNA site of el-Hemmeh (Jordan)." Her presentation explored how rodents and then predatory snakes were drawn to human-occupied areas, where specific snake taxa were incorporated into the site's subsistence.