Misliya Cave

Coordinates: 32°44′29″N 34°58′21″E / 32.7413°N 34.9724°E / 32.7413; 34.9724
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Misliya Cave
מערת מיסליה
Location in Israel
Location in Israel
Location in Israel
Location in Israel
Location in Israel
Misliya Cave (Middle East)
Location in Israel
Location in Israel
Misliya Cave (Asia)
Alternative nameBrotzen Cave
LocationMount Carmel, Israel, Levant
Coordinates32°44′29″N 34°58′21″E / 32.7413°N 34.9724°E / 32.7413; 34.9724
Length80 m (262 ft)

Misliya Cave (

anatomically-modern humans outside Africa, with its deepest assemblage being dated to 125,000 years ago.[2]

Excavations

Gazelle upper jaw from Misliya Cave (early Middle Paleolithic)

Excavations by teams of

University of Tel Aviv were conducted in the 2000/1 season, yielding finds dated to between 300,000 and 150,000 years ago.[3]

Misliya-1 fossil

Of special interest is the Misliya-1 fossil, an

Homo sapiens idaltu),[8] and the second oldest modern humans ever found outside of Africa,[1] the oldest being the skull Apidima 1 from the south western Peloponnese dated to roughly 210,000 years ago.[9]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Israeli fossils are the oldest modern human ever found outside of Africa. Auf: Nature News 25 January 2018
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  3. ^ Valladas, H., Mercier, N., Hershkovitz, I., Zaidner, Y., Tsatskin, A., Yeshurun, R., Vialettes, L., Joron, J.L., Reyss, J.L. and Weinstein-Evron, M., 2013. Dating the Lower to Middle Paleolithic transition in the Levant: A view from Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel. Journal of human evolution, 65(5), pp.585-593.
  4. ^ Jawbone fossil found in Israeli cave resets clock for modern human evolution. Amanda Borschel-Dan, The Times Of Israel. 25 January 2018.
  5. ^ Human exodus may have reached China 100,000 years ago. (2014)
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  7. ^ St. Fleur, Nicholas (25 January 2018). "In Cave in Israel, Scientists Find Jawbone Fossil From Oldest Modern Human Out of Africa". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
  8. ^ When did modern humans leave Africa? Auf: sciencemag.org vom 26. Januar 2018
  9. S2CID 195873640
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  • Mina Weinstein-Evron et al.: Introducing Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel: A new continuous Lower/Middle Paleolithic sequence in the Levant. In: Eurasian Prehistory. Band 1, Nr. 1, 2003, S. 31–55.
  • Mina Weinstein-Evron et al.: A Window into Early Middle Paleolithic Human Occupational Layers: Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel. In: Paleo Anthropology. 2012: 202−228, doi:10.4207/PA.2012.ART75
  • Hélène Valladas, Norbert Mercier, Israel Hershkovitz et al.: Dating the Lower to Middle Paleolithic transition in the Levant: A view from Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel. In: Journal of Human Evolution. Band 65, Nr. 5, 2013, S. 585–593, doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.07.005
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