Shanidar Z — The 75,000-Year-Old Neanderthal Woman Whose Crushed Skull Was Rebuilt From More Than 200 Pieces
The cave witnessed the transition from hunter-gatherer lifeways to the early farming communities that developed in the Fertile Crescent.
It was occupied during periods associated with some of the most significant social transformations in human prehistory.
The cave also has recent history.
In the twentieth century, Shanidar Cave served as a shelter for Kurdish farmers and their animals.
When Solecki arrived in the 1950s, the cave was not an archaeological site in an academic sense — it was a place that local people used, as it had been used for 100,000 years.
That continuity of use is itself a remarkable fact.
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