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Shanidar 

a Stone Age cave site in the foothills of the Zagros Mountains (northern Iraq), near Lake Urmia, where in the period 1951–61 an American archaeological expedition discovered nine Neanderthal skeletons, along with Levalloisian stone implements of the Mousterian culture. Anthropologically, the people from Shanidar, who lived 50,000 to 70,000 years ago, are related to the Neanderthals of Western Europe, but they have quite a few traits in common with modern man.

REFERENCE

Korobkov, 1.1. “Novye dannye o neandertal’skikh skeletakh iz peshchery Shanidar (Irak).” Voprosy antropologii. 1963, no. 15.