Introduction to special issue: In search for modern humans and the Early Upper Paleolithic at Manot Cave, Western Galilee, Israel

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Bible, Archaeology and the Ancient Near East, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, POB 653, Beer-Sheva 8410501, Israel. Electronic address: mardero@bgu.ac.il.
• ² Department of Anatomy and Anthropology, Dan David Center for Human Evolution and Biohistory Research, Shmunis Family Anthropology Institute, Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, POB 39040, Tel Aviv 6997801, Israel.
• ³ Department of Bible, Archaeology and the Ancient Near East, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, POB 653, Beer-Sheva 8410501, Israel.
• ⁴ Department of Archaeology, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC, V5A 1S6, Canada.
• ⁵ Archaeological Research Department, Israel Antiquities Authority, POB 586, Jerusalem 91004, Israel.