🇱🇧 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.
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🇸🇾 Syria · Archaeological wonder
Lower to Upper Palaeolithic (250–12 ka; peaks Middle Palaeolithic 70–50 ka) · Yabrudian → Levantine Mousterian (Neanderthal) → Upper Palaeolithic modern human
Afrin karst cave with two Neanderthal infant burials demonstrating deliberate funerary ritual.
🇱🇧 Lebanon · 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.
🇮🇱 Israel · 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).
🇮🇷 Iran · 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.
