ABSTRACT
Deep cave at the entrance to the Wadi el-Mughara (Valley of the Caves) on the western escarpment of Mount Carmel (Israel). Tabūn Cave was first excavated between 1929 and 1934 by a team led by D. Garrod, later excavated by A. Jelinek between 1967 and 1973, and since the 1980s has been excavated by A. Ronen. Tabūn's extraordinarily deep (more than 20 m) series of occupations furnishes a model for the Early and Middle Paleolithic cultural succession in the Levant. Tabūn has yielded hominid fossils from Middle Paleolithic deposits.
