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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

Age MinAge Max
Teshik Tash 1Skull