Evidence from Tinshemet Cave in Israel suggests behavioural uniformity across Homo groups in the Levantine mid-Middle Palaeolithic circa 130,000–80,000 years ago

Zaidner, Yossi; Prévost, Marión; Shahack‐Gross, Ruth; Weissbrod, Lior; Yeshurun, Reuven; Porat, Naomi; Guérin, Gilles; Mercier, Norbert; Galy, Asmodée; Pécheyran, Christophe; Barbotin, Gaëlle; Tribolo, Chantal; Valladas, Hélène; White, Dustin; Timms, Rhys; Blockley, Simon; Frumkin, Amos; Gaitero-Santos, David; Ilani, Shimon; Ben-Haim, Sapir; Pedergnana, Antonella; Pietraszek, Alyssa; Alfaro García, Pedro; Nicosia, Cristiano; Lagle, Susan; Varoner, Oz; Zeigen, Chen; Langgut, Dafna; Crouvi, Onn; Borgel, Sarah; Sarig, Rachel; May, Hila; Hershkovitz, Israël

doi:10.1038/s41562-025-02110-y

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Evidence from Tinshemet Cave in Israel suggests behavioural uniformity across Homo groups in the Levantine mid-Middle Palaeolithic circa 130,000–80,000 years ago

Published in Nature Human Behaviour • Mar 11, 2025

Authors:

Yossi Zaidner

Marión Prévost

Ruth Shahack‐Gross

Abstract

The south Levantine mid-Middle Palaeolithic (mid-MP; ~130–80 thousand years ago (ka)) is remarkable for its exceptional evidence of human morphological variability, with contemporaneous fossils of Homo sapiens and Neanderthal-like hominins. Yet, it remains unclear whether these hominins adhered to d...

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Cave

Geography

Archaeology

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