The First Flower People, Columbia University archaeologist Ralph Solecki detailed his groundbreaking excavations of Neanderthal remains inside Shanidar Cave in the Zagros Mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan."Someone in the Last Ice Age must have ranged the mountainside in the joyous task of collecting flowers for the dead... It seems to us more than a coincidence that pollen clumps were found matching the very flowers known for their medicinal and aesthetic qualities."
