Misliya Cave
A prehistoric cave in Mount Carmel, Israel / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Misliya Cave (Hebrew: מערת מיסליה), also known as the "Brotzen Cave" after Fritz Brotzen, who first described it in 1927, is a collapsed cave at Mount Carmel, Israel, containing archaeological layers from the Lower Paleolithic and Middle Paleolithic periods. The site is significant in paleoanthropology for the discovery of what were from 2018 to 2019 considered to be the earliest known remains attributed to Homo sapiens outside Africa, dated to 185,000 years ago.[1] Since the time of its discovery in 2011, Jebel Faya, in the United Arab Emirates, had been considered to be the oldest settlement of anatomically-modern humans outside Africa, with its deepest assemblage being dated to 125,000 years ago.[2]
מערת מיסליה | |
Alternative name | Brotzen Cave |
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Location | Mount Carmel, Israel, Levant |
Coordinates | 32.7413°N 34.9724°E / 32.7413; 34.9724 |
Length | 80 m (262 ft) |