Unidentified shell (Layer B)

Object Details

Notes

Selected remains from Shanidar collected when Solecki was in the employment of the SI. The collection also includes remains from wild goat, equids, large and small bovids, cervids, pig, small mammals, birds, and shell. Provenience information is included with material. Material represents Square D6, Layer B at a depth of 1.22 and has been identified as Levantina (Assyriella) mahanica and Helix salomonica (Naegele). Remaining material from Shanidar is probably at Columbia.

Record Last Modified

2 Jul 2020

Specimen Count

6

Culture

Prehistoric

Data Source

NMNH - Anthropology Dept.

Accession Date

9 May 1958

Accession Number

220078

USNM Number

A424921-0

Donor Name

Columbia University

Site Name

Shanidar Cave

Object Type

Archaeofauna

Place

Rowanduz Qadha, Erbil Governorate / Erbil Liwa, Iraq, Asia

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Topic

Archaeology

Record ID

nmnhanthropology_8177533

Usage

CC0

GUID

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3f74e3677-e837-4411-b064-67ebd3a05392