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IN a paper read on September 12 before Section H (Anthropology) of the British Association at Leicester, Miss D. A. E. Garrod outlined the results of the season's work carried out by a joint expedition of the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem and the American School of Prehistoric Research at Mugharet et-Tabun in Palestine. The cave is the last of the group of the Wady el-Mughara, at the foot of the western slope of Mount Carmel, to be examined. Of the caves previously excavated, the Mugharet el-Wad yielded a prehistoric culture sequence ranging from Natufian through three Aurignacian horizons down to Mousterian; the Mugharet es-Skhul is purely Mousterian, the industry corresponding very closely in type to that found at the base of the Mugharet el-Wad. Skeletons found in Skhul differ in many respects from those of the Neanderthal race, notably in the greater height of the cranial vault and in the presence of a well-defined chin.
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Recent Excavations in the Near East. Nature 132, 1010–1011 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/1321010a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/1321010a0