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Best time to visit Shanidar Cave: Apr–May & Oct–Feb. Shanidar Cave is an archaeological site on Bradost Mountain, within the Zagros Mountains in the…
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The best time to visit Shanidar Cave is Apr–May & Oct–Feb, in Iraq.
Shanidar Cave is in Iraq.
Shanidar Cave is an archaeological site on Bradost Mountain, within the Zagros Mountains in the Erbil Governorate of Kurdistan Region in northern Iraq. Neanderthal remains were discovered here in 1953, including Shanidar 1, who survived several injuries, possibly due to care from others in his group, and Shanidar 4, the famed supposed 'flower burial', where pollen has been suggested to be the remnants of deliberately placed flowers. Until this discovery, Cro-Magnons, the earliest known H.
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