Soil sample
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 Layer B1 (top) at a depth of 2.20 and is housed in a shared box with USNM 424975-424985. Remaining material from Shanidar is probably at Columbia.
- Part of specimen removed by Ralph and Rose Solecki for analysis in the 1990s. Returned in 2016 and was recataloged as part of the Ralph S. and Rose L. Solecki Papers and Artifacts Project (2018-2019).
- Record Last Modified
- 16 Apr 2020
- Specimen Count
- 1
- Culture
- Prehistoric
- Data Source
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Accession Date
- 9 May 1958
- Collection Date
- 1956 to 1957
- Accession Number
- 220078
- USNM Number
- A424980-0
- Collector
- Dr. Ralph S. Solecki
- Rose Solecki
- Donor Name
- Columbia University
- Site Name
- Shanidar Cave
- Object Type
- Archaeobotanical
- Place
- Rowanduz Qadha, Erbil Governorate / Erbil Liwa, Iraq, Asia
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- Anthropology
- Archaeobiology
- Topic
- Archaeology
- Record ID
- nmnhanthropology_8177599
- Usage
- CC0
