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Kebara 2: Dating, Missing cranium & Hyoid bone and speech

Kebara 2 (or Kebara Mousterian Hominid 2, KMH2) is a 61,000 year-old Levantine Neanderthal mid-body male skeleton. It was discovered in 1983 by Ofer Bar-Yosef, Baruch Arensburg, and Bernard Vandermeersch in a Mousterian layer of Kebara Cave, Israel. To the excavators, its disposition suggested it had been deliberately buried, though like every other…

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Kebara 2 topic overview

The analysis highlights Dating, Missing cranium and Hyoid bone and speech as prominent areas in the source structure around Kebara 2.

Related topics
16
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
21
Extracted relationships
26
Concept neighborhoods
13
Bridge connections
21

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Overview · 10 topics
Dating · 2 topics
Missing cranium · 2 topics
Chest shape and size · 1 topics
Hyoid bone and speech · 1 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Age
c. 61,000 years
Catalog no.
KMH2
Common name
Kebara 2
Date discovered
1983
Discovered by
Ofer Bar-Yosef, Baruch Arensburg, and Bernard Vandermeersch [fr]
Place discovered
Kebara Cave, Haifa District, Israel

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

Dating

Hyoid bone and speech

Chest shape and size

Missing cranium

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Kebara 2 connects Entity context

The extracted context around Kebara 2 shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Kebara 2 → Chest, In, Kebara, Maley, Neanderthal, Neanderthals, Sawyer, The, This Another extracted example is Kebara 2 → If, Its, Kebara, Neanderthal, Neanderthals, This, Today. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Kebara 2

Top relations

related to Chest shape and size · 9
Kebara 2 → Chest, In, Kebara, Maley, Neanderthal, Neanderthals, Sawyer, The, This
related to Hyoid bone and speech · 7
Kebara 2 → If, Its, Kebara, Neanderthal, Neanderthals, This, Today
Age · 1
Kebara 2 → c. 61,000 years
Catalog no. · 1
Kebara 2 → KMH2
Common name · 1
Kebara 2 → Kebara 2
Date discovered · 1
Kebara 2 → 1983
Discovered by · 1
Kebara 2 → Ofer Bar-Yosef, Baruch Arensburg, and Bernard Vandermeersch [fr]
Place discovered · 1
Kebara 2 → Kebara Cave, Haifa District, Israel
Species · 1
Kebara 2 → Neanderthal
is a · 1
Kebara 2 → most complete post-cranial Neanderthal skeleton ever found and has played a major role in three debates on Neanderthal anatomy and behaviour

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

kebara neanderthal skeleton neanderthals modern found shape size 000 hyoid constraints mousterian 61 bar-yosef israel et al thorax ribcage post-cranial

Kebara 2 relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 26 structured relationships around Kebara 2. Examples in this analysis include Kebara 2 → Age → c. 61,000 years and Kebara 2 → Catalog no. → KMH2. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Kebara 2Agec. 61,000 years1.00infobox
Kebara 2Catalog no.KMH21.00infobox
Kebara 2Common nameKebara 21.00infobox
Kebara 2Date discovered19831.00infobox
Kebara 2Discovered byOfer Bar-Yosef, Baruch Arensburg, and Bernard Vandermeersch [fr]1.00infobox
Kebara 2Place discoveredKebara Cave, Haifa District, Israel1.00infobox
Kebara 2SpeciesNeanderthal1.00infobox
Kebara 2is amost complete post-cranial Neanderthal skeleton ever found and has played a major role in three debates on Neanderthal anatomy and behaviour0.90text
the hyoidinstance ofespecially its fragile bones0.80text
the cervical vertebraeinstance ofespecially its fragile bones0.80text
Kebara 2related to Chest shape and sizeChest0.60section
Kebara 2related to Chest shape and sizeNeanderthals0.60section

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Kebara 2 bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Neanderthal, Found and Shape. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • Kebara 2
    • Neanderthal
    • Found
    • Shape
    • Size
    • Thorax
    • Skeleton
    • Age
    • Arensburg
    • Baruch
    • Bernard
    • Cave
    • Discovered
  • kebara 2
    • Neanderthal
    • Found
    • Shape
    • Size
    • Thorax
    • Skeleton
    • Age
    • Arensburg
    • Baruch
    • Bernard
    • Cave
    • Discovered
  • kebara cave
    • Discovered
    • Israel
    • Ofer
    • Vandermeersch
    • Years
    • Age
    • Mousterian
    • Neanderthal
    • Found
    • Al
    • Et
    • Shape
  • levantine neanderthal
    • Skeleton
    • First
    • Vocal
    • Hyoid
    • Ribcage
    • Chests
    • Debates
    • Authors
    • Could
    • Post-cranial
    • Preserved
    • Skull
  • baruch arensburg
    • Arensburg
    • Baruch
    • Bernard
    • Cave
    • Discovered
    • Israel
    • Ofer
    • Vandermeersch
    • Bar-yosef
    • Years
    • Age
    • Mousterian
  • ofer bar-yosef
    • Israel
    • Vandermeersch
    • Arensburg
    • Baruch
    • Bernard
    • Cave
    • Discovered
    • Ofer
    • Al
    • Et
    • Years
    • Age
  • bernard vandermeersch
    • Cave
    • Discovered
    • Israel
    • Ofer
    • Vandermeersch
    • Years
    • Age
    • Mousterian
    • Al
    • Et
    • Found
    • Kebara
  • mousterian
    • Arensburg
    • Baruch
    • Bernard
    • Cave
    • Discovered
    • Israel
    • Ofer
    • Vandermeersch
    • Bar-yosef
    • Skeleton
    • Neanderthal

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Kebara 2, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Kebara 2 with Overview. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Kebara 2 — Overview · splits 11 ⟂ 11
Kebara 2 — Dating · splits 19 ⟂ 3
Kebara 2 — Missing cranium · splits 19 ⟂ 3

Map overview Semantic statistics

Kebara 2

Nodes22
Edges21
Triples26
Avg. degree1.91
Density0.090909
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Kebara 2 to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as Dating, Missing cranium & Hyoid bone and speech, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Kebara 2 · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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