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Shanidar 8 was an adult with partial fragmentary skeleton. Shanidar 6 and 7 were skull, teeth and partial skeleton, all fragmentary. Shanidar 1, 2, 3, 5, and 7 were found as individual burials while the other remains were found in a single compressed block. [16] Inside the Shanidar Cave
The island is the top of a volcanic tuff cone that rests on top of a larger, submerged shield volcano. At its highest point, the island reaches a height of 548 ft (167 m). [1] The ocean has carved large sea cliffs on the sides of the island. There is a large cave on the northwest side of the island called Kahalauaola (Shark Cave). [2]
English: Shanidar I's skull and skeleton; on the ventral surface of the right clavicle, someone wrote "Shanidar I". From Shanidar Cave, Erbil, Iraq. Circa 60,000 to 45,00o BCE. On display at the Pre-History Gallery of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, Iraq.
Ralph Stefan Solecki (October 15, 1917 – March 20, 2019) was an American archaeologist. [1] Solecki was born in Brooklyn, New York in October 1917, [2] the son of Polish immigrants – Mary (nee Tarnowska), a homemaker, and Casimir, an insurance salesman. [3]
English: Shanidar II's skeletal remains (upper and lower jaws and teeth, skull fragments, and non-cranial bones); on one of the bones, someone wrote "Shanidar II". From Shanidar Cave, Erbil, Iraq. Circa 60,000 to 45,00o BCE. On display at the Pre-History Gallery of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, Iraq.
Kazumura Cave is a lava tube and has been surveyed at 40.7 miles (65.5 km) long and 3,614 feet (1,102 m) deep making it the longest and deepest lava tube in the world. [note 1] [2] [3] The cave is located on the island of Hawaiʻi on the eastern slope of Kīlauea. Kīlauea is the most recently active volcano on the Big Island.
Necker Island (Hawaiian: Mokumanamana "branched island") [2] is a small uninhabited island in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. It is located at in the Pacific Ocean, 430 miles (370 nmi; 690 km) northwest of Honolulu, Hawaii, 155 miles (135 nmi; 249 km) northwest of Nihoa, [3] and 8 miles (7 nmi; 13 km) north of the Tropic of Cancer
The exact location is kept restricted to avoid damage to the site. It is on U.S. Federal land which is part of the Pohakuloa Training Area . [ 2 ] At an elevation of 5,100–9,000 ft (1,600–2,700 m), the arid area receives only 20 in (510 mm) of rainfall per year.