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Tabun Cave

One of the longest Palaeolithic occupation sequences in the Levant, on Mount Carmel, which yielded early Neanderthal remains.

Dated events and their evidence

• about 498,000 years ago mainstream
  Intermittent Lower Palaeolithic occupation of the cave begins, continuing into the Middle Palaeolithic source
• about 198,000 years ago mainstream
  Mousterian layers begin, containing the Tabun Neanderthal remains source

Where

32.6705° N, 34.9655° E

Sources

• https://doi.org/10.3406/paleo.1973.4163
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabun_Cave

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