If Skhul Cave represents a fleeting evolutionary snapshot, Tabun Cave —located just a few hundred meters away—is a monumental, deep-time calendar of human prehistory. Excavated initially by Dorothy Garrod between 1929 and 1934, Tabun features one of the longest, most uninterrupted stratigraphic sequences in the entire world, preserving a 500,000-year record of shifting climates, changing human species, and evolving tool technologies. [ THE TABUN DEEP-TIME STRATIGRAPHIC COLUMN ]