The Tabun Cave and Paleolithic Man in the Levant
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Publication Date
6-25-1982
Publication Title
Science
Volume Number
216
Issue Number
4553
Abstract
Recent excavations at the deeply stratified Late Pleistocene cave site of Tabun on Mount Carmel have yielded a long sequence of Middle and Lower Paleolithic industries and associated geological and environmental evidence that has important implications for the understanding of man's cultural and biological development in that period. An analysis of these materials strongly supports a continuity in cultural development at this site from about 130,000 to 50,000 years ago and suggests that a continuous biological evolution from Neanderthal to anatomically modem Homo sapiens took place in the southern Levant.
Keywords
Archaeology, Paleolithic period, Excavations (Archaeology), Neanderthals, Human evolution
Document Type
Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1126/science.216.4553.1369
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Jelinek, Arthur J., "The Tabun Cave and Paleolithic Man in the Levant" (1982). KIP Articles. 8574.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/kip_articles/8574
