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Shanidar 1 was an elderly Neanderthal male known as 'Nandy' to his excavators. He was aged between 30 and 45 years. Shanidar 1 had a cranial capacity of 1,600 cm 3 , was around the height of 5 feet 7 inches (170 cm), and displayed severe signs of deformity. [ 29 ]
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One extreme example is Shanidar 1, who shows signs of an amputation of the right arm likely due to a nonunion after breaking a bone in adolescence, osteomyelitis (a bone infection) on the left clavicle, an abnormal gait, vision problems in the left eye, and possible hearing loss [76] (perhaps swimmer's ear). [77]
Shanidar 2 and 4 are sometimes not treated as Neanderthals. All but Shanidar 3 and 10 (and fragments of 5 excavated in 2015-2016) [ 36 ] may have been destroyed in the 2003 invasion of Iraq . [ 40 ]
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English: Shanidar I's skull and skeleton; on the ventral surface of the right clavicle, someone wrote "Shanidar I". From Shanidar Cave, Erbil, Iraq. Circa 60,000 to 45,00o BCE. On display at the Pre-History Gallery of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad, Iraq.
[1] The earliest suggested examples were once thought to include Neanderthals and the Proto- Neolithic Homo sapiens component (9th millennium BCE) from Shanidar Cave in Iraq , [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The view that the Neanderthal skull was artificially deformed, thus representing the oldest example of such practices by tens of thousands of years, was ...
One of the southernmost Neanderthals: Homo neanderthalensis fossil from Tabun Cave, Israel. 120.000-50.000 BC. Israel Museum.. As the Levant is the landbridge to Eurasia, Dmanisi remains in Georgia from 1.81 Ma suggest that hominins passed through the Levant some time before this (unless they crossed the Bab el-Mandeb strait into Arabia).