Object description

The Tabun Cave is an excavated site located at Nahal Me'arot Nature Reserve, Israel and is one of Human Evolution sites at Mount Carmel, which were proclaimed as having universal value by UNESCO in 2012. The cave was occupied intermittently during the Lower and Middle Paleolithic . In the course of this period, deposits of sand, silt and clay of up to 25 m accumulated in the cave. Excavations suggest that it features one of the longest sequences of human occupation in the Levant.