Carmel Caves ,Israel,Carmel Nature reserve

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During 1931–32 some dozen skeletal remains were found in a cave and rock shelter, including, from the cave, a complete female skeleton now known to be about 41,000 years old. The remains from the rock shelter are about 5,000 years younger. Some authorities believe that these remains represent an intermediate stage between Neanderthal man and modern man. Findings were published in The Stone Age of Mount Carmel. Sanctified since early times, Mt. Carmel is mentioned as a “holy mountain” in Egyptian records of the 16th century bc. As a “high place,” it was long a centre of idol worship, and its outstanding reference in the Bible is as the scene of Elijah’s confrontation with the false prophets of Baal . The excavation at el-Tabun produced the longest stratigraphic record in the region, spanning 600,000 or more years of human activity,] from the Lower Paleolithic to the present day, representing roughly a million years of human evolution. There are also several well-preserved burials of Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens

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Location: Carmel Israel
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