Nahal Me'Arot - Israel

UNESCO site #991 in my collection. The Caves of Nahal Me'arot, in the Carmel mountain range near Haifa in northern Israel, are classified since 2012. Marcel visited them in 2019 and he sent me this card a few days ago.

 

© Photography by A. Shabataev

Situated on the western slopes of the Mount Carmel range, the site includes the caves of Tabun, Jamal, el-Wad and Skhul. Ninety years of archaeological research have revealed a cultural sequence of unparalleled duration, providing an archive of early human life in south-west Asia. This 54 ha property contains cultural deposits representing at least 500,000 years of human evolution demonstrating the unique existence of both Neanderthals andEarly Anatomically Modern Humans within the same Middle Palaeolithic cultural framework, the Mousterian. Evidence from numerous Natufian burials and early stone architecture represents the transition from a hunter-gathering lifestyle to agriculture and animal husbandry. As a result, the caves have become a key site of the chrono-stratigraphic framework for human evolution in general, and the prehistory of the Levant in particular. - in: https://whc.unesco.org