During the 1930s, excavations at Skhul Cave, situated on the slopes of Mount Carmel, Israel, unearthed a spectacular series of ten hominin skeletons dating to approximately 100,000 to 130,000 years ago. When physical anthropologists first analyzed these remains alongside those from neighboring caves, they were confronted with a baffling anatomical enigma.The Skhul fossils displayed a bizarre, highly variable mixture of archaic Neanderthal-like r…
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