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How modern were European Neandertals? Why is it always European Neanderthals? I'm joking of course, but people should be reminded that so-named Neanderthals were also found in the Zagros Mountains of Iraq, in Shanidar Cave by Ralph Solecki, whom I had the please to meet once at Columbia University. Prior to that time there was a paper circulating at an American Association for the Advancement of Science of a juvenile jaw bone specimen found in Canada, washed out from an unknown strata, that was possibly of a Neanderthal and caused a stir, the so-called Tabor child.