Shanidar Cave excavations
1951–1960 · Event
Ralph Solecki finds Neanderthal burials in Iraqi Kurdistan, including a long-disabled man cared for by his group and the 'flower burial'.
On these timelines: Human Origins & the Ice Age, Master, Mesopotamia & the Ancient Near East
More from Human Origins & the Ice Age
- Emergence of Homo sapiens (300000 BCE)
- Split between humans and chimpanzees (7000000 BCE)
- Extinction of the Neanderthals (40000 BCE)
- Neanderthal remains found in the Neander Valley (1856)
- Pleistocene Ice Age (2580000 BCE)
- Bruniquel Cave structures (174000 BCE)
- Homo floresiensis, the island 'hobbits' (100000 BCE)
- King names Homo neanderthalensis (1864)
Around 1951
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Korean War (1950)
- Battle of Stalingrad (1942)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Apartheid (1948)
- Chinese Civil War (resumed) (1945)
- Manhattan Project (1942)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)