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🇹🇷Turkey

🇱🇧 Lebanon · Cave

Jeita Cave

Middle Palaeolithic to present (c.80,000 BP–modern) · Mousterian → Aurignacian → Holocene

Keserwan 9 km karst system (Mousterian–Aurignacian, 5 m speleothems) on Nahr al-Kalb gorge.

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🇮🇶 Iraq · Cave

Peri Ali Beg Cave — Rawanduz Gorge

Middle Paleolithic to Neolithic (80000–7000 BCE) · Zagros Paleolithic (Hazar Merd group)

Peri Ali Beg Cave — Rawanduz Gorge in Erbil Governorate, Iraq is a Middle Paleolithic to Neolithic (80000–7000 BCE) cave attributed to Zagros Paleolithic (Hazar Merd group).