Manot Cave
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title:
Manot Cave
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Manot Cave is a cave in Western Galilee, Israel, discovered in 2008. It is notable for the discovery of a skull that belongs to a modern human, called Manot 1, which is estimated to be 54,700 years old. The partial skull was discovered at the beginning of the cave's exploration in 2008. Its significance was realised after detailed scientific analysis, and was first published in an online edition of Nature on 28 January 2015. This age implies that the specimen is the oldest known human outside Af
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Archaeological site in Israel
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manot_Cave
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2023-12-03T00:00:31Z
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