The cave Shanidar excavated between 1957-1961 by Ralph Solecki and his team from Columbia University and unearthed the first adult Neanderthal skeletons in Iraq, dating between 60-35 000 BC. There wer buried eight adult and two infant Neanderthals in there. The pollen found in one of the Shanidar grave allowed Solecki to allege an argument that flowers had been buried with the Neanderthal dead1.
See:
- Robert H. Gargett, Grave Shortcomings: The Evidence for Neandertal Burial [and Comments and Reply] in: Current Anthropology ol. 30, No. 2 (Apr., 1989), pp. 157-190 - https://www.academia.edu/1027804/
- https://www.thoughtco.com/shanidar-cave-iraq-neanderthal-violence-172632
- https://arkeofili.com/neandertallerin-olulerini-gomdukleri-kesinlesti/
- Shanidar I - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanidar_Cave
References
- ↑Ralph S. Solecki, Shanidar, the First Flower People, Knopf, 1971