Lake Ram

Hebrew: בריכת רם, romanized: Brekhat Ram) is a crater lake (maar)[1] in the northeastern Golan Heights near the village of Mas'ade and Mount Hermon.

Most notably, excavation led to the discovery of the Venus of Berekhat Ram, a pebble allegedly worked by Homo erectus.

[5] The pebble was found in a context datable to at least 230,000 years before present time, thus to the early Middle Palaeolithic.

Research on lacustrine sediments at the site concluded that the area has been heavily settled four times over history, first during the early Bronze Age, secondly during the Hellenistic and Roman–Byzantine periods, thirdly during the period of medieval Crusader rule, and finally in modern times.

Between these periods the area became overgrown as local woodland regenerated, evidencing phases of low human occupation.