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Shanidar Cave (Kurdish: ئەشکەوتی شانەدەر, romanized: Eşkewtî Şaneder, [1] [2] Arabic: كَهَف شانِدَر [3]) is an archaeological site on Bradost Mountain, within the Zagros Mountains in the Erbil Governorate of Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq. [4]
Country Iraq: Autonomous region ... The Shanidar Cave is located 14 kilometres (9 mi) to the southeast. [4] References This page was last edited on 7 November 2024 ...
Neanderthals also occupied the site of Shanidar. This cave-site, located in the Sapna Valley, has yielded a settlement sequence stretching from the Middle Palaeolithic up to the Epipalaeolithic period. The site is particularly well known for its Neanderthal burials.
Known as Shanidar Z, after the cave in Iraqi Kurdistan where she was found in 2018, the woman was a Neanderthal, a type of ancient human that disappeared around 40,000 years ago.
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The remains of ten Neanderthals, dating from around 65,000–35,000 years ago, have been found in the Shanidar Cave. [13] The cave also contains two later " proto-Neolithic " cemeteries, one of which dates back about 10,600 years and contains 35 individuals. [ 14 ]
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Shanidar 2 and 4 are sometimes not treated as Neanderthals. All but Shanidar 3 and 10 (and fragments of 5 excavated in 2015-2016) [36] may have been destroyed in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. [40] Iran: Bawa Yawan: Lower left deciduous canine 1 ~43,600-~41,500 years ago [41] Heydari-Guran et al (2021) [41] Iran: Wezmeh: maxillary right premolar ...