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Ficure 6.—Locations of animal bones found on and among the stones lying over Shanidar I. 
had been crushed upon underlying stones of small size. Other bones 
were obviously displaced, and some could not be located. From the 
breakages and displacement of the bones, it appeared that the direc- 
tion and thrust of the rockfall had been downward to the north and 
west. Of course, some shifting of the stones after the rockfall could 
have taken place. 
When fully uncovered, the skeleton was found to be extended full 
length on its back in an east-west direction (pl. 5 and fig. 7). Ap- 
proximating the position of the skull, which had already been re- 
moved, the length of the skeleton from head to feet was about 160 cm.*° 
The width across the shoulders was about 38 cm., and the distance 
from the neck to the hips, about 40 cm. The force of the stone fall 
seems to have been greatest on the individual’s lower legs, his left 
hip, and the upper part of his chest. The feet, which lay higher than 
the rest of the body, had been cut off at the ankles and jutted outside 
the heap of loose stones in a relatively stone-free area. 
In the upper part of the postcranial skeleton (pl. 6, left) it was 
noted that the left shoulder was higher than the right. The left 
collar bone or clavicle was in approximately normal position; the 
left shoulder bone or scapula was broken. The right scapula and 
3 Using bone lengths, Dr. Stewart (1959, p. 277) estimates by modern standards a stature 
for Shanidar I of 5 feet 7 to 8 inches. 
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