Qafzeh and Skhul Caves are located in Qafzeh, Israel in Mount Qafzeh a few meters apart. The caves contain about twenty four layers of rock; Limestone, breccias, and stalagmitic are a few of them. There, the remains of 11 different individuals were discovered between 1933 and 1977(Moore).
In 1933 the scientist Neuville discovered the remains of two ancient modern type human beings, this was just the beginning. By 1977 the remains were found of 11 different humans. The most intriguing find was in the Skhul cave, a modern looking skull (Skhul 9) with Neanderthal features (in the prognathism and brow ridges)
no other skulls in either cave show this. The find may have been the product of Modern human and Neanderthal breeding (Roberts). No other evidence was found to support this theory except a few meters away at the Tabun and Kebara caves the remains of several Neanderthal humans were found. So the possibility of interbreeding was very feasible.
Both adult and infant bones were found in the Qafzeh and Skhul caves dating back to 100,000 years old. With the Human remains there were Mousterian tools (side scrapers and points) thought only to be the tools of the Neanderthal man. Again highlighting the interaction between Neanderthal man and modern humans
There were also animal remains of horses, deer, ox, gazelle and rhinoceros found in the caves among the humans (Gomez).
References:
Gomez, Tara Quinn Danny. Site Project on Qafzeh. http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/proj/anthro/asb222/projects/project8.html
Moore. Jebel Qafzeh Cave. http://ancientneareast.tripod.com/Jebel_Qafzeh.html. August 2002.
Roberts, Michael. The Origin of Modern Humans: Multiregional and Replacement Theories. http://www.linfield.edu/~mrobert/origins.html. July 2002.
Written by Sarah deVille, 2003