Dederiyeh Neanderthals,Afrin,Syria

近年来，关于现代智人进化和扩散的研究有了很大的发展，其结果已成为黎凡特古人类学研究的中心。在这种情况下，古人类学家最有争议的课题之一是解释被归类为尼安德特人的骨骼遗骸和那些被归类为早期现代人的骨骼遗骸之间的年代和系统发育关系，这些遗骸在阿穆德和克巴拉(尼安德特人)和卡夫泽(早期现代)遗址中发现。在德德里耶洞穴中发现尼安德特人进一步阐明了这一问题。Dederyeh洞穴提供了关于黎凡特尼安德特人和塔布恩B型穆斯特尔人之间的地层组合以及死海裂谷北端尼安德特人和塔布恩B工业之间的地层组合分布的新数据。它暗示了尼安德特人和早期现代人在地理分布上的差异，这是由Tabun B型和C型行业之间的分布差异所表明的。因此，随着国际上对Afrin的兴趣成为Levantine研究的关键领域，通过Dederyeh的进一步研究，应该可以将尼安德特人和早期现代的居民置于更完整的古环境和行为背景中，并按时间顺序排列。德德里耶洞穴有可能对有关尼安德特人及其遭遇的争论做出很大贡献。

Recently the study of the evolution and dispersal of modern Homo sapiens has developed greatly and the results have become a center of interest of paleoanthropology in the Levant. Under this situation, one of the most controversial subjects among paleoanthropologists is the interpretation of the chronological and phylogenetic relationship between skeletal remains classified as Neanderthals and those classified as early modern humans, as found in sites such as Amud and Kebara (Neanderthal) and Qafzeh (early modern). The discovery of the Neanderthals at the Dederiyeh cave shed further light on this subject. The Dederiyeh Cave has produced new data on the stratigraphic association between Neanderthals and Tabun B-type Mousterian in the Levant, and on the distribution of the stratigraphic association between Neanderthals and Tabun B industry in the northern extremity of the Dead Sea Rift. It implies the difference in geographical distribution between Neanderthals and early modern humans suggested by the distributional difference between the industries of Tabun B and C types. Thus with the international interest in Afrin as a critical area for Levantine studies, it should possible from further research at Dederiyeh, to place the inhabitants, both Neanderthal and early modern, in a more complete paleoenvironmental and behavioral context, as well as a chronological one. The Dederiyeh cave has the potential to contribute much to debate about the Neanderthals, and what happened to them.