SKELETONS FROM SHANIDAR CAVE—SOLECKI 625 
CRUMBLING 
BONE MASS 
vi NS) 
CMS. 
Ficure 10.—Skeletal remains of trunk of Shanidar III. 
The first signs of the skeletal remains occurred when one of the work- 
men called my attention to some unrecognizable crushed and frag- 
mented bones. They were lying at an oblique upward angle in a 
churned mass of yellow loamy soil and limestone blocks (pl. 11). 
These fragments looked like the foot and leg bones of some large 
mammal and I judged that it had been killed in a rockfall. The bones 
appeared to be in articulation, and definitely were not the usual 
cracked and broken assortment of miscellaneous mammal bones en- 
countered in occupational levels. Among these bones one fragment 
was later identified as the distal end of a human fibula. 
The bones were found intermingled among sharp angular fragments 
of limestone in a 30 cm. thickness of yellow loamy soil, part of a 
poor occupational horizon which had been twisted and contorted out 
of shape by a relatively light rockfall. Some powdery gray rockmeal, 
a large share of which must have come from crushed stones, was also 
found in the composition. One meter to the south of the find in a 
similar pocket of earth, joined by a warped section of the deposit, 
were found two small hearths, one above the other (pl. 12). The 
hearths lay 10 cm. above the level of the bones. Both hearths meas- 
ured about 70 cm. in diameter and 5 em. in thickness. They had been 
