{Prehistoric Circles (2)}[28th September 1990]

[Redbook7:342][19900928:1822]{Prehistoric Circles (2)}[28th September 1990]

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‘... Several Mousterian** localities have been excavated in the south[-]eastern Uzbek Republic.*** At the most important of these sites – the cave of Teshik-Tash – the burial**** of a Neanderthal# child who was surrounded by horns of a#* Siberian mountain goat has been discovered.’

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*[[Redbook7:334-337][19900926:1230]{Prehistoric Circles (1)}[26th September 1990]ff,] 337 →

**ref [Encyclopaedia] Britannica] 19:781

***of Central Asia

****→[[Redbook7:345][19900930:2135]{The Cave Bear and Venus [Extract]}[30th September 1990];

[Redbook7:345][19900930::2135c]{Hunter-gatherers and Agriculturalists [Extract]}[30th September 1990],] 345

#cf [[Redbook7:334-337][19900926:1230]{Prehistoric Circles (1)}[26th September 1990]&f?f?,] 334

#*(presumably ‘the’)

[Not necessarily. This seems to be the Siberian/Altai/Gobi/Himalayan/Mongolian/Central Asian or Tien Shan Ibex, whose horns (in the male) are up to 58 inches long and can be (for example) curved in an irregular arc.]

#**cf E[ncyclopaedia B[ritannica] 26:66 photo: (‘Venus’-type) female holding a bison horn, stone bas-relief from Laussel, Dordogne, France, Gravettian period (25,000/20,000-18,000-15,000BC[E])

#***&:- BUT: ‘... It is not possible to connect particular burial customs with particular notions of the beyond, or to any other religious conceptions.’ E[ncyclopaedia B[ritannica] 26:64 <900930>

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