Shanidar Research Articles

Shanidar IV, a Neanderthal Flower Burial in Northern Iraq

The discovery of pollen clusters of different kinds of flowers in the grave of one of the Neanderthals, No. IV. at Shanidar cave, Iraq. furthers our acceptance of the Neanderthals in our line of evolution. It suggests that, although the body was archaic, the spirit was modern.

The Flowers Found with Shanidar IV, a Neanderthal Burial in Iraq

Analysis of soil samples from the Shanidar IV burial, Shanidar cave, revealed the same pollens throughout the sequence, with variations in frequency. However, samples 313 and 314 contained, in addition, several pollen clusters of as many as 100 pollen grains, evidence that complete flowers were introduced into the burial cave.

Shanidar: The First Flower People

Shanidar: The First Flower People

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Shanidar Cave

Prehistoric Fauna From Shanidar, Iraq

A comparative analysis of the faunal material from Shanidar Cave and the nearby proto-Neolithic site of Zawi Chemi Shanidar indicates that sheep were domesticated at Zawi Chemi Shanidar at the beginning of the 9th millennium B.C., more than 1000 years earlier than the earliest known evidence of animal husbandry.

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Shanidar Cave

The Skeleton of The Fossil İnfact Found in Shanidar Cave Northern Iraq

Mr. Ralph Solecki, the director of the Shanidar cave expedition (1956—1957) sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution of Wash- ington, D.C., and financcd by the Smithsonian Institution, Wenner- Grcn Foundation, Columbia University and the American Philo- sophical Society, invited mc to Baghdad to study and report on the remains of a fossil infant found by him in 1953, during an excava- tion conducted on bchalf of the Smithsonian Institution and the Department of Antiquities of the Iraq Government. I went to Bagh­ dad on 22 Dccember 1956 and remained there until 10 January 1957, and studied the remains of the fossil infant, which is now houscd in the Iraq Museurn