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the specimens found (fig. 10, d). The flints, like those of Zarzi, reflect 

 a very careful and expert chipping industry. Small river cobbles of 

 chert were evidently used. The color of the material ranges from 

 light tan, reddish through brownish, to green and gray chert. Layer 

 B had proportionally the largest number of pieces of worked obsidian, 

 an exotic material, the nearest source of which is in the Lake Van 



CffOSS SECTION OF SHANIDAR CAVE SOUNDING 

 ON LINE 0W4-N2W4 (WEST FACE) 



> LAYER A 



Figure 9, — West face of step-back in the upper part of Shanidar cave sounding, 1953 season. 

 Layer B appears to have an upper and a lower division (B' and B^). 



region of Anatolia. In the assemblage are several "Gravette" points, 

 several types of gravers, backed blades and bladelets, elongated trian- 

 gular and subtriangular or scalene points, several single-shouldered 

 points, a small number of lunates and trapezoidal fonns (including 

 a Kebaran and Heluan crescent) , borers or perforators, core scrapers, 

 side and end scrapers, notched blades (including "lames etrangles"), 



