Skhul Cave
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Es-Skhul (es-Skhūl, Hebrew: מערת סחול; Template:Langx; meaning kid, young goat) or the Skhul Cave is a prehistoric cave site situated about Script error: No such module "convert". south of the city of Haifa, Israel, and about Script error: No such module "convert". from the Mediterranean Sea.
Together with the nearby sites of Tabun Cave, Jamal cave, and the cave at El Wad, Skhul is part of the Nahal Me'arot Nature Reserve,[1] a national park and UNESCO World Heritage Site.[2]
The site was first excavated by Dorothy Garrod during summer of 1929. Several human skeletons were found in the cave, belonging to an ancient species of Homo sapiens. Both Neanderthals and anatomically modern humans were present in the region from 200,000 to 45,000 years ago.[3]
The remains found at es-Skhul, together with those found at the other caves of Wadi el-Mughara and Mugharet el-Zuttiyeh, were classified in 1939 by Arthur Keith and Template:Ill as Palaeoanthropus palestinensis, a descendant of Homo heidelbergensis.[4][5][6]
See also
- List of fossil sites (with link directory)
- List of hominina (hominid) fossils (with images)
- Qafzeh Cave
- Qesem cave
References
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- ↑ Olson, S. Mapping Human History. Houghton Mifflin, New York (2003). p. 74–75.
- ↑ The Palaeolithic Origins of Human Burial, Paul Pettitt, 2013, p. 59
- ↑ Human Adaptation in the Asian Palaeolithic: Hominin Dispersal and Behaviour during the Late Quaternary, Ryan J. Rabett, 2012, p. 90
- ↑ The stone age of Mount Carmel : report of the Joint Expedition of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem and the American School of Prehistoric Research, 1929–1934, p. 18
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