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brown stained soil, yielded a nonceramic Zarzi type of flint industry, 

 including a Mesolithic-like industry (pi. 4). Layer C, which the 

 writer (Solecki, op. cit.) had earlier called "Aurignacian" and 

 "Aurignacian-type," contained a stone industry which was later 

 identified as unique (pi. 5). Layer D contained a typologically 

 Mousterian stone industry which, with the exception of hand axes, is 

 typologically similar to the industry recovered by Garrod at Hazer 

 Merd (pi. 6) . These layers with their contents and significance are 



CROSS SECTION OF SHANIDAR CAVE SOUNDING 

 ON LINE 00-GW4 (NORTH FACE, UPPER HALF SECTION) 



0W4 ■•> — WEST 



EAST ► 00 



^0 ...DATUM 



Figure 6. — Upper part of the north face of Shanidar cave sounding, 1951 season, showing 

 Layers A, B, C, and the upper part of Layer D. 



discussed in more detail below. It may be well to emphasize here that 

 the four cultural layers noted do have soil changes within them, but 

 for the present treatment I chose to recognize the layers in broad 

 physical as well as cultural perspective, placing weight on typological 

 contexts (e. g., Layer D, a very thick deposit, while it appears to be 

 typologically Mousterian in content throughout, is not composed of a 

 single unbroken soil stratum, as one should logically expect). 



