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Mount Carmel in northern Israel lies on the route of any people traveling between Africa and Eurasia along the Mediterranean. It has been a sacred site and a refuge for fugitives from the world or merely from the law; but among its pilgrims today are paleoanthropologists. Numerous caves and archaeological sites on and near the mountain bear witness to the paleolithic cultures and hominin populations that have inhabited the region over hundreds of thousands of years. They include Neanderthals and other archaic peoples who probably missed one another by not so many thousands of years. The sites help us to perceive the differences among these types of humans as more ecological than technological.
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Langdon, J.H. (2016). Case Study 20. The Neanderthal Problem: Neighbors and Relatives on Mt. Carmel. In: The Science of Human Evolution. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41585-7_20
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