The Skeleton of The Fossil İnfact Found in Shanidar Cave Northern Iraq

Abstract

Mr. Ralph Solecki, the director of the Shanidar cave expedition (1956—1957) sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution of Wash- ington, D.C., and financcd by the Smithsonian Institution, Wenner- Grcn Foundation, Columbia University and the American Philo- sophical Society, invited mc to Baghdad to study and report on the remains of a fossil infant found by him in 1953, during an excava- tion conducted on bchalf of the Smithsonian Institution and the Department of Antiquities of the Iraq Government. I went to Bagh­ dad on 22 Dccember 1956 and remained there until 10 January 1957, and studied the remains of the fossil infant, which is now houscd in the Iraq Museurn