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Personal Statement
Thomas M. Wilkinson, MD
Arch Fam Med. 1997;6(2):112.
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IDWAY UP the Israeli coast, a few kilometers inland, a precipice of kurkar limestone climbs nearly 100 meters to form the foot of Mount Carmel. A cave perched high on its face opens outward to where the sea once was, spilling some deposits from 500 000 years of human and protohuman activity there. In 1992, Israeli archaeologists reopened excavations at this site in an effort to clarify its most controversial find: the jaw of a morphologically modern human buried almost 100 000 years ago, some 40 000 years before Neanderthals had last occupied that cave and 55 000 years before any equivalent find in Europe. While working there as a consultant that summer, I was shown the thickened skull of a Cro-Magnon man, Homo sapiens, who had died with Paget's disease. For all the spirited debate on the emergence of humanity, my mind was gripped with questions about this one
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Author Affiliations
Abington Family Medicine Abington Memorial Hospital Jenkintown, Pa
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