The Tabun Cave is an excavated site located at Nahal Me'arot Nature Reserve, Israel and is one of the Human Evolution sites at Mount Carmel, which were proclaimed as having universal value by UNESCO in 2012.
Tabun Cave
Distribution of the Neanderthal, and main sites, including Tabun cave.
Homo Neanderthalensis, Tabun 1, Mount Carmel, Israel About 120,000–50,000 BP (replica)
Five hand axes, excavated 1929-1934, British Museum
Mount Carmel, also known in Arabic as Mount Mar Elias, is a coastal mountain range in northern Israel stretching from the Mediterranean Sea towards the southeast. The range is a UNESCO biosphere reserve. A number of towns are situated there, most notably Haifa, Israel's third largest city, located on the northern and western slopes.
Southern tip of Mount Carmel at sunset, as seen from the entrance to Kibbutz Ma'agan Michael
A view of Mount Carmel in 1894
Coloured postcard of "Haifa, Mount Carmel", by Karimeh Abbud, c. 1925
Distribution of the Neanderthal, and main sites, including Tabun cave, 500,000 to around 40,000 BP