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Identified shell (Layer C)
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- 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. Materials represent Square B12, Layer C at a depth of 3.75-4.00 and have been identified as Levantina (Assyriella) mahanica and Helix salomonica (Naegele). Remaining material from Shanidar is probably at Columbia.
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- Record Last Modified
- 2 Jul 2020
- Culture
- Prehistoric
- Data Source
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Accession Date
- 9 May 1958
- Accession Number
- 220078
- USNM Number
- A425095-0
- 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_8177740
- Usage
- CC0