Several fire hearths were contorted out of shape by the downthrust of the stones. Watch; Jean M Auel / The Clan of the Cave Bear First Edition 1980. Fig. Below Shanidar one of the villagers showed me a large hollow in a rock, which he said had been used in olden times to crush grapes. Photo and text: Solecki (1971). There was a good view from the front of the cave, and I thought I could see down to where the Greater Zab River shimmered in the heat between two bills in the Vshaped opening a mile or more away- Water, according to our police escort, was to be found up the trail from the cave in a spring. On the way back we stopped to examine a cave called Shkafta Guran near a village called Konashehora. Such things as this did not make for cordial relations. I noticed some small hoofprints near the spring. They are closely cropped by the herders, who use billhooks to lop off branches to feed to their goats. The most prominent fixture there with any appearance of solidity was the police post, which seemed to be built on exactly the same plan as our Shanidar fortress. Although the right and left orbit heights are equal, the left orbit breadth is about 8.0% below that of the right orbit, indicating the extent of the medial crushing of the frontal process of the zygomatic bone. It was noted that the left shoulder was higher than the right, and the left hand and arm lay across the chest. I had to exercise constant vigilance against possible cave-ins as well. Looking for abbreviations of CCB? $20.00. My escort said that from here there was no path to the top of the mountain. Photo and text: Solecki (1971), Shanidar Cave Plan
The excavation in the cave is marked in grey. Roasted on an open fire, the nut tasted like a chestnut. Three year old Neanderthal child of Roc de Marsal, one of the oldest burials of the Perigord, Tools, Shells and Bones from Lake Mungo in Australia, Travers - Sabine Circuit, Nelson Lakes, New Zealand, Travers Sabine Circuit in New Zealand - Angelus Hut to John Tait Hut, Travers Sabine Circuit in New Zealand - Blue Lake to Lake Rotoroa, Travers Sabine Circuit in New Zealand - John Tait Hut to West Sabine Hut over the Travers Saddle, Travers Sabine Circuit in New Zealand - St Arnaud, Bushline and Angelus Huts, Travers Sabine Circuit in New Zealand - West Sabine Hut to Blue Lake, Two Headed Woman, one of the Grimaldi Venuses, Venus el Rombo, or Venus de Losange, (the diamond or rhomboid shaped venus) from Grimaldi, Venus figures from Russia, the Ukraine and sites East of the Donau mouth, Venus figures from the Kostenki - Borshevo region on the Don River, Venus of Abri Pataud, and the archeological site of Abri Pataud at Les Eyzies, Venus of Courbet / Bruniquel / Montastruc, Venus of Die Rote von Mauern - the Red Venus from the Weinberghöhlen near Mauern, Venus of Menton, one of the Grimaldi Venuses, Venus of Milandes, from Castelnaud-la-Chapelle, Dordogne, Venus of Polichinelle, carved in green steatite, Venus of Sireuil, Roc de Cazelle, Dordogne, Venus of Tursac, a figurine of translucent calcite, Venus of Zaraysk / ÐаÑайÑк ÐенеÑа, part of the Kostenki-Willendorf culture, Winnemucca Petroglyphs: Oldest Rock Art in North America, Wollomombi and Chandler Falls walking and climbing, Wonderwerk Cave - stone tools made by Homo habilis, ultra lightweight tent, sleeping bag, stove, raincoat. From: Shanidar Cave, by Dr Ralph Solecki
The Zagros Mountains resemble the highlands of Scotland; their foothills look like the hills of the U. S. Southwest. The tools they had brought to work with were so much junk, and I wondered how they could make much of an impress in the soil. The mosquito netting enclosing the bed did not help air circulation, making for fitful sleep. The (male) skeleton was found buried with many different species of flowers and herbs, evidenced by pollen remains. A painting made soon after the Piltdown finds. ―Reverse cover, The Clan of the Cave Bear We later learned that Sargon II had gone through this region on punitive wars over 2,5 00 years ago. Although advanced degenerative joint disease in the foot may occur as a result of normal but excessive wear and tear, it appears likely that the osteoarthritis of the Shanidar 1 right foot was trauma related. (right) Close up of the entrance to Shanidar Cave, from the photo on the left
Photo and text: Solecki (1971), Shanidar village resident, one of our workmen and singers. Shanidar, Iraq, circa 50 000 BP. I did this before breakfast. Photo and text: Solecki (1971), Inside Shanidar Cave, showing the huts of the local inhabitants. I had two armed police escorts. 5th century BC. Clan of the Cave Bear Travel Map - French; Clickable map of the Shelters of Stone area in the Land of Painted Caves, Vezere Valley; ... or if you have any photographs or information which would be useful for Don's Maps please contact Don Hitchcock at don@donsmaps.com Important Information Eventually scientists recognized that Neanderthals were an extinct species that shared a common ancestor (probably Homo heidel¬bergensis) with Homo sapiens. The trees grow to about twenty feet. These included the scarlet and yellow ranunculus, several kinds of iris, the grape hyacinth, hollyhocks in two colours and the poppy. From this point inwards the ceiling falls away rapidly to a height of 25 feet, then gradually slopes to the rear until the end of the cave is met, some 130 feet from the cave mouth. Not counting the large and confusing number of hearths in Layer A, a total of thirty hearths was recorded in the 1951 sounding. The movie version of 'Clan of the cave bear' isn't really a bad adaption - but the very fact that this is a movie, running less than two hours, forces it to be a very compact version of the book. He suffered multiple fractures involving the cranium, right humerus, and right fifth metatarsal, and the right knee, ankle, and first tarsometatarsal joint show degenerative joint disease that was probably trauma related. Photographs such as this took a long time to set up in the darkness of the pit, normally lit only by oil lamps. There was some corroboration, for a few chunks of stone had recently become dislodged from the ceiling, as indicated by the bar, white patches in the soot-blackened expanse. Shanidar lies in an open valley of comparatively rolling land about 3,000 feet wide and fifteen miles long. The force of the stone fall seems to have been greatest on the individual's lower legs, his left hip, and the upper part of his chest. Solvieux - a large open-air site near Gabillou in the l'Isle basin. Far in the distance were the sawtooth-ridged mountains which had attracted Hay on his visit to this region. Photo: David Coltheart, Taken in 1869, this is a portrait of Flint Jack, the renowned forger of stone tools, sitting poised for the camera with a hammer in one hand and a piece of stone in the other. There was no elaborate using of the sling, digging in of the heels in the turf, holding of the breath and so on. Auditory exostoses are a bony response to irritation of the external acoustic canal, which is age dependent and highly influenced by an individual's life history. The orders came back that I should have three or four police. The damage was slight. Search for a burial pit revealed no signs, but there were flecks of charcoal around the bones. Radio contact was made
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with the commandant of the district at Mergasuf, just two hours straight over the mountain to the east of us, concerning an escort for me to Shanidar Cave. The predominant tree in the vicinity of the cave was the dwarf oak (Quercus aegilops), which is called by the Kurdish-speaking people dar gholu. The other fracture of the right humerus was transversely across the olecranon fossa, perhaps at the margin of the distal articular capsule. Through Jean Auel's magnificent storytelling, we are taken back to the dawn of mankind and swept up in the wonderful world of a very special heroine, Ayla." During August the temperature rose to such a point that we had to sleep on the roof of the police post, but still with light bed covering. The whole troop went in two jeeploads to a point above the Raizan bridge on the Rukuchuk River at Khor Pasha's ruined bridge. According to him the name should be 'Shanider', a place where a Christian monastery had stood. One of Shanidar 1's middle foot bones (metatarsal) on his right foot shows a healed fracture, which probably only enhanced his noticeable limp. The Kurdish goatherds and their families, who live in the cave all winter from November to April, have built individual brush huts inside it, each with a small fireplace, and corrals for goats, chickens, cows and horses [see drawing on page 451. But with publication of Darwin's On the Origin of Species, the idea that the bones were from a species closely related to us began to make sense. Carbon-14 dates bracketed this layer between about 33,000 BC and 26,750 BC. In the centre of the courtyard were feeding troughs and watering troughs for horses. She was on her knees, singing to herself in a kind of low plaintive cry. In the process, much of the bone, especially on the left side and along the midline, turned to bone meal and small fragments, thereby making a restoration of the skull to its original shape virtually impossible. 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