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| Ibex Cave | |
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 Entrance to Ibex Cave. | |
  Map showing location of Ibex Cave in Gibraltar. | |
| Location | Eastern face of the Rock of Gibraltar, Gibraltar |
| Coordinates | 36°08′05″N 5°20′44″W / 36.134799°N 5.345538°W |
| Discovery | 1975 [1] |
| Geology | Limestone |
| Entrances | 1 |
Ibex Cave is a limestone cave on the Rock of Gibraltar which has yielded stone artifacts of Mousterian tradition. It was discovered in 1975.[1] It is so named as an ibex skull was found within the cave which would have been hunted by the Neanderthals of Gibraltar thousands of years ago. Ibex Cave was named and excavated by the Gibraltar Museum in 1994. Its first formal description was in 1999.[2]
- ^ a b "Ibex Cave". NESPOS.org. Retrieved 10 July 2012.
- ^ Barton, N. and Currant, A. and Fernandez-Jalvo, Y. and Finlayson, C. and Goldberg, P. and Macphail, R. and Pettitt, P. and Stringer, C. (1999).Gibraltar Neanderthals and results of recent excavations in Gorham's, Vanguard and Ibex Caves.