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Teshik-Tash Cave

A limestone cave in the Boysun mountains where the remains of a Neanderthal child were found in 1938, set in a gorge reached on foot.

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About the place

In 1938 the Soviet archaeologist Alexei Okladnikov excavated the cave and found the skeleton of a Neanderthal child, together with stone tools and animal bones. The find showed that Neanderthals had lived far into Central Asia.

The cave sits high in the side of a gorge in the Boysun mountains. The walk in follows a stream between steep rock walls and takes some effort, and the reward is the landscape as much as the cave itself, which is a plain rock shelter today.

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