Soil sample
date: label: Accession Date
content: 9 May 1958
label: Collection Date
content: 1956 to 1957
name: label: Collector
content: Dr. Ralph S. Solecki
label: Collector
content: Rose Solecki
label: Donor Name
content: Columbia University
label: Site Name
content: Shanidar Cave
notes: label: Notes
content: Selected remains from Shanidar collected when Solecki was in the employment of the SI. The collection also includes remains from wild goat, equids, large and small bovids, cervids, pig, small mammals, birds, and shell. Provenience information is included with material. Material represents Layer B1 (top) at a depth of 2.20 and is housed in a shared box with USNM 424975-424985. Remaining material from Shanidar is probably at Columbia.
label: Notes
content: Part of specimen removed by Ralph and Rose Solecki for analysis in the 1990s. Returned in 2016 and was recataloged as part of the Ralph S. and Rose L. Solecki Papers and Artifacts Project (2018-2019).
label: Record Last Modified
content: 16 Apr 2020
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Rowanduz Qadha, Erbil Governorate / Erbil Liwa, Iraq, Asia
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Prehistoric
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content: Anthropology
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content: Archaeobiology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 220078
label: USNM Number
content: A424980-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Archaeobotanical