New Neanderthal remains associated with the ‘flower burial’ at Shanidar Cave

@article{Pomeroy2019NewNR,
  title={New Neanderthal remains associated with the ‘flower burial’ at Shanidar Cave},
  author={Emma Pomeroy and Paul Bennett and Chris Hunt and T. Emmett Reynolds and Lucy Farr and Marine Frouin and James Holman and Ross Lane and Charles French and Graeme Barker},
  journal={Antiquity},
  year={2019},
  volume={94},
  pages={11 - 26}
}
Abstract Shanidar Cave in Iraqi Kurdistan became an iconic Palaeolithic site following Ralph Solecki's mid twentieth-century discovery of Neanderthal remains. Solecki argued that some of these individuals had died in rockfalls and—controversially—that others were interred with formal burial rites, including one with flowers. Recent excavations have revealed the articulated upper body of an adult Neanderthal located close to the ‘flower burial’ location—the first articulated Neanderthal… 
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