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Upper portion of Neanderthal skeleton, Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan (Graeme Barker)
Shanidar Cave, Iraqi Kurdistan(Graeme Barker)
Sixty years ago, the discovery of four Neanderthal skeletons clustered together in Shanidar Cave in Iraqi Kurdistan led some scholars to conclude, controversially, that members of the extinct human species practiced burial customs. Since then, other scholars have questioned that interpretation, suggesting the quartet died together of exposure or during a rock
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