Dederiyeh Cave
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 Dederiyeh 1.Two-year-old Neanderthal, dated 70 kya-50 kya | |
  Dederiyeh Cave Location in Syria | |
| Location | Afrin |
|---|---|
| Region | Syria |
| Coordinates | 36°24′00″N 36°52′00″E / 36.40000°N 36.86667°E |
| Height | 450 m |
| History | |
| Periods | Middle Paleolithic |
| Associated with | Neanderthal |
| Site notes | |
| Excavation dates | 1987 |
| Archaeologists | Takeru Akazawa, Sultan Muhesen |
Dederiyeh Cave (Arabic: مغارة الديدرية, Kurdish: Şkefta Duderî)[1] is a cave in Mount Simeon, Syria, in which systematic excavations have taken place since 1987. The cave is located 60 kilometers northwest of Aleppo in the Afrin District, on the left bank of a wadi, at an altitude of 450 metres (1,480 ft). Two Neanderthal children were found in the cave, in 1993 and 1997–1998, both of which showed evidence that they were buried.[2]
The cave consists of a chamber, 15 meters wide and 8 meters high, rising up to 10 meters in the back where a chimney is a second exit, and 50 meters deep. The main entrance is north and overlooks the wadi.[2]