Introduction
The entrance of the cave facing the wadi, for the north, is reached by climbing about 60 m up from the valley floor; after another 10 m there is a mouth of a second entrance, that is the chimney. The present mountainous zone is completely open and very sparsely vegetated. The cave consists of a large chamber of 15m wide and 10m high at the entrance, and about 60m deep and a maximum width of 40m with a vaulted dome reaching of 10m at the back of the cave. A skeleton of Neanderthal infant was found under the chimney of the cave in 1993.
QTVR Panorama and Object Movies
- Interior views of the Dederiyeh Cave
- Dederiyeh Cave-1
- Dederiyeh Cave-2
- Dederiyeh Cave-3
- Dederiyeh Cave-4
- Dederiyeh Cave-5
- Neanderthal infant skeleton found at the cave iQTVR Object movies of Replica)
- Skeleton-1
- Skeleton-2
Takeo Fukazawa, 1997
e-mail:fukazawa@texnai.co.jp
