Manot 1 is a fossil specimen designated to a skullcap that represents an archaic modern human discovered in Israel. It represents extinct humans called Manot people who lived in the Manot Cave (hence the name) in Western Galilee during the early Paleolithic period. It was discovered in 2008 and the scientific description was first published in an online edition of Nature on 28 January 2015. Radiometric dating indicates that it is about 54,700 years old, which in turn shows that it is the oldest known specimen that belongs to modern human. In addition it is also a good evidence for the Out of Africa theory. It also supports the idea that modern human ancestors could have interbred with another human species, the Neanderthals, as posited by genome analyses.