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Paleolithic caves tagged “mousterian”

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Paleolithic caves

🇱🇧 Lebanon · Cave

Jeita Cave

Middle Palaeolithic to present (c.80,000 BP–modern) · Mousterian → Aurignacian → Holocene

Keserwan 9 km karst system (Mousterian–Aurignacian, 5 m speleothems) on Nahr al-Kalb gorge.

✓VerifiedUNESCO

🇮🇱 Israel · Cave

Tabun Cave

Lower to Middle Palaeolithic (c.500,000–40,000 BP) · Acheuleo-Yabrudian → Mousterian (Neanderthal)

Mount Carmel UNESCO cave (500–40 ka, 25 m sequence, Neanderthal Yabrudian–Mousterian, Garrod/Jelinek).

✓Verified

🇮🇷 Iran · Cave

Kunji Cave

Middle to Upper Palaeolithic (c.70,000–30,000 BP) · Zagros Mousterian → Baradostian

Lorestan cave 8 m deposits (70–30 ka, Mousterian→Baradostian, Neanderthal→UP) near Khorramabad.