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This was confirmed by our later excavation of nawamis at Gebel Gunna, about 20 miles east of Ein Huderah. Almost all of the bones we found were disarticulated and lying near the outer walls. See O. Bar-Yosef, Anna Belfer-Cohen, A. Goren, I. Hershkovitz, Ornit Ilan, H.K. Mienis and B. Sass, “Nawamis and Habitation Sites near Gebel Gunna, Southern Sinai,” Israel Exploration Journal 3–4 (1986), pp. 121–167.

See Ofer Bar-Yosef, Anna Belfer, Avner Goren and Patricia Smith, “The Nawamis near ‘Ein Huderah (Eastern Sinai),” Israel Exploration Journal 2–3 (1977), pp. 65–88.

M. Krings et al., “Neandertal DNA Sequences and the Origin of Modern Humans,” Cell 90 (1997), pp. 19–30; and Matthias Höss, “Ancient DNA: Neandertal Population Genetics,” Nature 404 (2000), pp. 453–454.

Summarized in L.C. Aiello, “The Fossil Evidence for Modern Human Origins in Africa: A Revised View,” American Anthropologist 95 (1993), pp. 73–96.

D.J. Melnick and G.A. Hoelzer, “What is MtDNA Good for in the Study of Primate Evolution?” Evolutionary Anthropology 2 (1993), pp. 2–10; and D.W. Frayer et al., “Theories of Modern Human Origins: The Paleontological Test,” American Anthropologist 95 (1993), pp. 14–50.

R.L. Cann, M. Stoneking and A.C. Wilson, “Mitochondrial DNA and Human Evolution,” Nature 325 (1987), pp. 31–36.

For more information on excavations at Gordion, see the following: Mary M. Voigt and Robert C. Henrickson, “The Formation of the Phrygian State: The Early Iron Age at Gordion,” Anatolian Studies 50 (2000), pp. 1–18; Voigt and T. Cuyler Young, Jr., “From Phrygian Capital to Achaemenid Entrepöt: Middle and Late Phrygian Gordion,” Iranica Antiqua 34 (1999), pp. 191–241; and Voigt, “Gordion,” Oxford Encyclopedia of Near Eastern Archaeology, ed. Eric M. Meyers (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1997).

Gus W. van Beek, Hajar Bin Humeid: Investigations at a Pre-Islamic Site in South Arabia (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1969).