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Teshik Tash
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- Lat/Long:
- 40.88, 72.56
- Country:
- Uzbekistan
- Classifications:
- Homo, Homo neanderthalensis
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Teshik-Tash is a cave grotto in the Baysuntau Mountains (Surkhandarya Region, Uzbekistan). In this cave in 1938-1939, the Soviet archaeologist Alexei Pavlovich Okladnikov made the discovery of a burial from the Mousterian culture of a Neanderthal girl. Previously, it was assumed that this skeleton belonged to a boy.
Specimens
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Teshik Tash 1 | Skull | ||