Skhul and Qafzeh hominins
Restos de Skhul y Qafzeh
- Date
- 1929-1979 · confidence medium
- Place
- Mount Carmel, Israel
- Credited to
- Dorothy Garrod, René Neuville, Moshe Stekelis and Bernard Vandermeersch
- Field
- Cosmos & Earth
What was discovered
Fossil remains of archaic Homo sapiens found in the Es Skhul (Mount Carmel) and Qafzeh (Galilee) caves, excavated from 1929 onward by Dorothy Garrod and later teams; among the oldest known anatomically modern humans outside Africa, dated to roughly 90,000-120,000 years ago.
What it led to
- Early evidence of Homo sapiens dispersal out of Africa
- Debate over the chronology of the human exodus from Africa
- Comparison with contemporaneous Neanderthal populations in the region