Tabun Cave

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Tabun (Tanur) Cave (Oven Cave)
A 120,000-year-old Neanderthal-type female skeleton was discovered in the Tabun Cave, so named because it resembles a chimney (“oven” is “tanur” in Hebrew and “tabun” in Arabic). Different groups of humans lived inside it from 500,000 to 40,000 years ago.
Tabun is the highest one of three Carmel Caves in the Nahal Me’orot Nature Reserve. Stairs lead from a visitor’s center to the entrance. Archeologists found many hunting and foraging tools here along with piles of fallow deer bones and other leftovers of ancient meals
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Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabun_Cave
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Coordinates:   32°40'13"N   34°57'56"E
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