7 An antimatroid is a family of sets such that it contains an empty set, and it is accessible and closed under union of sets. An antimatroid is an ‘antipodal’ concept of matroid. 9 We shall show that an antimatroid is derived from shelling of a poset if and only if it does not contain a minor isomorphic to S7 where S7 is the smallest semimodular lattice that is not 11 modular. It is also shown ...