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Kebara Cave (Me'arat Kebbara, Mugharat al-Kabara) is a limestone cave locality in Wadi Kebara, situated at above sea level on the western escarpment of the Carmel Range, in the Ramat HaNadiv preserve of Zichron Yaakov.[1]

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Table of Contents

  1. 31 relations: Archaeological excavation, Archaeology of Israel, Before Present, Cave, Current Anthropology, Dorothy Garrod, Escarpment, Fossil, Francis Turville-Petre, Height above mean sea level, Hominidae, Hyoid bone, Israel, Journal of Archaeological Science, Kebara 2, Kebaran culture, Limestone, List of fossil sites, List of human evolution fossils, Mount Carmel, Mousterian, Neanderthal, Pelvis, Ramat HaNadiv, Rib, Skeleton, Skull, Steven Mithen, Transitional fossil, Vertebral column, Zikhron Ya'akov.

  2. 1930s archaeological discoveries
  3. Caves of Israel
  4. Kebaran culture
  5. Mount Carmel
  6. Prehistoric sites in Israel

Archaeological excavation

In archaeology, excavation is the exposure, processing and recording of archaeological remains.

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Archaeology of Israel

The archaeology of Israel is the study of the archaeology of the present-day Israel, stretching from prehistory through three millennia of documented history.

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Before Present

Before Present (BP) or "years before present (YBP)" is a time scale used mainly in archaeology, geology, and other scientific disciplines to specify when events occurred relative to the origin of practical radiocarbon dating in the 1950s.

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Cave

A cave or cavern is a natural void under the Earth's surface.

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Current Anthropology

Current Anthropology is a peer-reviewed anthropology academic journal published by the University of Chicago Press for the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.

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Dorothy Garrod

Dorothy Annie Elizabeth Garrod, CBE, FBA (5 May 1892 – 18 December 1968) was an English archaeologist who specialised in the Palaeolithic period.

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Escarpment

An escarpment is a steep slope or long cliff that forms as a result of faulting or erosion and separates two relatively level areas having different elevations.

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Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin) is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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Francis Turville-Petre

Francis Adrian Joseph Turville-Petre (4 March 1901 – 16 August 1942) was a British archaeologist, famous for the discovery of the Homo heidelbergensis fossil Galilee Man in 1926, and for his work at Mount Carmel, in what was then the British Mandate of Palestine, now Israel.

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Height above mean sea level

Height above mean sea level is a measure of a location's vertical distance (height, elevation or altitude) in reference to a vertical datum based on a historic mean sea level.

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Hominidae

The Hominidae, whose members are known as the great apes or hominids, are a taxonomic family of primates that includes eight extant species in four genera: Pongo (the Bornean, Sumatran and Tapanuli orangutan); Gorilla (the eastern and western gorilla); Pan (the chimpanzee and the bonobo); and Homo, of which only modern humans (''Homo sapiens'') remain.

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Hyoid bone

The hyoid bone (lingual bone or tongue-bone) is a horseshoe-shaped bone situated in the anterior midline of the neck between the chin and the thyroid cartilage.

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Israel

Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant, West Asia.

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Journal of Archaeological Science

The Journal of Archaeological Science is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers "the development and application of scientific techniques and methodologies to all areas of archaeology".

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Kebara 2

Kebara 2 (or Kebara Mousterian Hominid 2, KMH2) is a 61,000 year-old Levantine Neanderthal mid-body male skeleton. Kebara Cave and Kebara 2 are Mousterian.

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Kebaran culture

The Kebaran culture, also known as the 'Early Near East Epipalaeolithic', is an archaeological culture of the Eastern Mediterranean dating to c. 23,000 to 15,000 Before Present (BP).

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Limestone

Limestone (calcium carbonate) is a type of carbonate sedimentary rock which is the main source of the material lime.

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List of fossil sites

This list of fossil sites is a worldwide list of localities known well for the presence of fossils.

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List of human evolution fossils

The following tables give an overview of notable finds of hominin fossils and remains relating to human evolution, beginning with the formation of the tribe Hominini (the divergence of the human and chimpanzee lineages) in the late Miocene, roughly 7 to 8 million years ago.

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Mount Carmel

Mount Carmel (Har haKarmel; Jabal al-Karmil), also known in Arabic as Mount Mar Elias (lit), is a coastal mountain range in northern Israel stretching from the Mediterranean Sea towards the southeast.

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Mousterian

The Mousterian (or Mode III) is an archaeological industry of stone tools, associated primarily with the Neanderthals in Europe, and to the earliest anatomically modern humans in North Africa and West Asia.

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Neanderthal

Neanderthals (Homo neanderthalensis or H. sapiens neanderthalensis) are an extinct group of archaic humans (generally regarded as a distinct species, though some regard it as a subspecies of Homo sapiens) who lived in Eurasia until about 40,000 years ago.

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Pelvis

The pelvis (pelves or pelvises) is the lower part of the trunk, between the abdomen and the thighs (sometimes also called pelvic region), together with its embedded skeleton (sometimes also called bony pelvis or pelvic skeleton).

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Ramat HaNadiv

Ramat Hanadiv (רמת הנדיב, Heights of the Benefactor), is a nature park and garden in northern Israel, covering at the southern end of Mount Carmel between Zikhron Ya'akov to the north and Binyamina to the south.

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Rib

In vertebrate anatomy, ribs (costae) are the long curved bones which form the rib cage, part of the axial skeleton.

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Skeleton

A skeleton is the structural frame that supports the body of most animals.

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Skull

The skull is a bone protective cavity for the brain.

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Steven Mithen

Steven Mithen, (born 16 October 1960) is an archaeologist.

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Transitional fossil

A transitional fossil is any fossilized remains of a life form that exhibits traits common to both an ancestral group and its derived descendant group.

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Vertebral column

The vertebral column, also known as the spinal column, spine or backbone, is the core part of the axial skeleton in vertebrate animals.

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Zikhron Ya'akov

Zikhron Ya'akov (זִכְרוֹן יַעֲקֹב, lit. "Jacob's Memorial"; often shortened to just Zikhron) is a town in Israel, south of Haifa, and part of the Haifa District. Kebara Cave and Zikhron Ya'akov are mount Carmel.

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See also

1930s archaeological discoveries

Caves of Israel

Kebaran culture

Mount Carmel

Prehistoric sites in Israel

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kebara_Cave

Also known as Kebara, Me'arat Kebbara, Mugharat al-Kabara, מערת כבארה, مغارة الكبارة.