Dederiyeh Cave

The cave consists of a chamber, 15 meters wide and 8 meters high, rising up to 10 meters in the back where a chimney is a second exit, and 50 meters deep. The main entrance is north and overlooks the wadi. ==Excavations==

Tentative excavations took place in 1989 and 1990, and more serious research started in 1993; it quickly yielded the remains of a Neanderthal child, about two years old, an almost complete set of remains. A second (partial) skeleton was found in 1997–1998, in a pit of 70x50 cm, filled with fine brown dirt in which flint were found. The researchers concluded that this also was intentionally buried. Dederiyeh 2 Animal Remains In the lower layers, the animal remains were predominantly from wild sheep and goats. In the upper layers, other animals such as deer, boar and aurochs were more common, indicating a warmer, more humid climate. == See also ==