SKELETONS FROM SHANIDAR CAVE—SOLECKI 605 
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Ficure 2.—Schematic cross section of the Shanidar Cave excavation. 
stones falling into the excavation from Layer A. While this condi- 
tion was being corrected, it was decided as an additional safety meas- 
ure to remove a bulge of earth near the top of the eastern wall of 
the excavation. On the day of the find, April 27, a rainy Thursday, 
Philip Smith took a turn with the full labor force to work at Shani- 
dar Cave. At the same time I took advantage of a free day and the 
services of Michael Mansell Moullin, an engineer then employed by 
the Iraq Government, to survey the Zawi Chemi Shanidar site close 
to Shanidar village. 
In my notes of April 27 I recorded that “at tea time, Phil reported 
the calvarium of a man in the Baradost layer—material from layer 
