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Misliya Cave

Coordinates: 32°44′29″N 34°58′21″E / 32.7413°N 34.9724°E / 32.7413; 34.9724
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Misliya Cave
Location in Israel
Location in Israel
Location in Israel
LocationMount Carmel, Israel
Coordinates32°44′29″N 34°58′21″E / 32.7413°N 34.9724°E / 32.7413; 34.9724
Length80 m (262 ft)

Misliya cave (Template:Lang-he, also known as Brotzen Cave after Fritz Brotzen who first described it in 1927) at Mount Carmel, Israel, is a collapsed cave containing archaeological layers from the Lower Paleolithic and Middle Paleolithic periods. The site significant in paleoanthropology for the discovery of the earliest known remains attributed to Homo sapiens outside of Africa, dated to 185,000 years ago.[1]

Excavations by teams of University of Haifa and University of Tel Aviv were conducted in the 2000/1 season, yielding finds dated to between 400,000 and 150,000 years ago.

Of special interest is the Misliya-1 fossil, an upper jawbone discovered in 2002[2] and at first dated to "possibly 150,000 years ago" and classified as "early modern Homo sapiens" (EMHS).[3] In January 2018, the date of the fossil has been revised to between 177,000 and 194,000 years ago (95% CI).[4][5] This qualifies Misliya-1 as one of the oldest known fossil of H. sapiens, of comparable age to the Omo remains (identified as "archaic Homo sapiens", or Homo sapiens idaltu),[6] and the oldest modern humans ever found outside of Africa.[1]

See also

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References

  1. ^ a b Israeli fossils are the oldest modern human ever found outside of Africa. Auf: Nature News 25 January 2018.
  2. ^ Jawbone fossil found in Israeli cave resets clock for modern human evolution. Amanda Borschel-Dan, The Times Of Israel. 25 January 2018.
  3. ^ Human exodus may have reached China 100,000 years ago. (2014)
  4. ^ Herschkovitz, Israel; et al. (26 January 2018). "The earliest modern humans outside Africa". Science. 359 (6374): 456–459. doi:10.1126/science.aap8369. Retrieved 30 June 2018. {{cite journal}}: Explicit use of et al. in: |author= (help)
  5. ^ St. Fleur, Nicholas (25 January 2018). "In Cave in Israel, Scientists Find Jawbone Fossil From Oldest Modern Human Out of Africa". The New York Times. Retrieved 30 June 2018.
  6. ^ When did modern humans leave Africa? Auf: sciencemag.org vom 26. Januar 2018
  • Mina Weinstein-Evron et al.: Introducing Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel: A new continuous Lower/Middle Paleolithic sequence in the Levant. In: Eurasian Prehistory. Band 1, Nr. 1, 2003, S. 31–55.
  • Mina Weinstein-Evron et al.: A Window into Early Middle Paleolithic Human Occupational Layers: Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel. In: Paleo Anthropology. 2012: 202−228, doi:10.4207/PA.2012.ART75
  • Hélène Valladas, Norbert Mercier, Israel Hershkovitz et al.: Dating the Lower to Middle Paleolithic transition in the Levant: A view from Misliya Cave, Mount Carmel, Israel. In: Journal of Human Evolution. Band 65, Nr. 5, 2013, S. 585–593, doi:10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.07.005
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