Research Catalog

Title

The proto-neolithic cemetery in Shanidar Cave / Ralph S. Solecki, Rose L. Solecki & Anagnostis P. Agelarakis.

Author

Solecki, Ralph S.

Publication

College Station : Texas A & M University Press, [2004], ©2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Agelarakis, Anagnostis P., 1956-
• Solecki, Rose L.

Description

xiv, 234 pages : illustrations, map; 25 cm.

Summary

"In distant prehistory, along a branch of the Tigris River, a group of humans lived in a community "on the threshold of the Neolithic Revolution." Near their open village at the river, Shanidar Cave, nestled in the Zagros Mountains, served as a base camp and also sheltered a burial site. Eleven thousand years later, archaeologists excavating the cave have discovered artifacts and skeletal remains that offer impressive evidence about this site's prehistoric culture and, specifically, about the origins of agriculture and trade." "The thirty-five bodies in twenty-six burials and the associated artifacts recovered from the cave's upper levels are systematically catalogued and described in this well-illustrated and carefully explicated report. Associated with the burials was a special assemblage of funerary goods and human remains that provide new clues to the familial relationships and lifestyles of these people of the ninth millennium B.C." "The only prehistoric cemetery site of its kind east of the Mediterranean area, Shanidar Cave adds a new geographic perspective to the study of the Proto-Neolithic era, which has been dominated by findings from the more extensively investigated Levant area to the west. It suggests unexpected patterns of trade and cultural interactions and offers clues to the role of the Zagros-Taurus Mountains area in the prehistory of the Near East."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Texas A & M University anthropology series ; no. 7

Uniform Title

Texas A & M University anthropology series ; no. 7.

Subject

• Burial > Zagros Mountains (Iran and Iraq)
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Zagros Mountains (Iran and Iraq)
• Human remains (Archaeology) > Zagros Mountains (Iran and Iraq)
• Neanderthals > Zagros Mountains (Iran and Iraq)
• Shanidar Cave (Iraq)
• Zagros Mountains (Iran and Iraq) > Antiquities

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-228) and index.

Contents

Preface / Ralph S. Solecki and Rose L. Solecki -- Ch. 1. Introduction / Ralph S. Solecki -- Ch. 2. Catalog of the Burials in the Proto-Neolithic Cemetery / Ralph S. Solecki -- Ch. 3. The Stone Features / Ralph S. Solecki and Rose L. Solecki -- Ch. 4. Burial Offerings and Other Goods from the Proto-Neolithic Graves / Rose L. Solecki and Ralph S. Solecki -- Ch. 5. Cultural Materials Found in the Cemetery Fill / Rose L. Solecki and Ralph S. Solecki -- Ch. 6. Comparative Study of the Shanidar Cave Mortuary Practices and Those of the Levant during the Epipalaeolithic and Proto-Neolithic Eras / Rose L. Solecki and Ralph S. Solecki -- Ch. 7. Sumary Discussion of the Proto-Neolithic Cemetery in Shanidar Cave / Rose L. Solecki and Ralph S. Solecki -- Ch. 8. The Zagros Proto-Neolithic and Cultural Developments in the Near East / Rose L. Solecki and Ralph S. Solecki -- Ch. 9. The Shanidar Cave Proto-Neolithic Human Condition as Reflected through Osteology and Palaeopathology / Anagnostis P. Agelarakis -- App. A. Summary of the Proto-Neolithic Skeletons from Shanidar Cave / Juan Munizaga -- App. B. Beads and Pendants from the Proto-Neolithic of Shanidar Cave and Zawi Chemi Shanidar Village / Peter Francis, Jr.

ISBN

1585442720 (alk. paper)

LCCN

2003009958

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries