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...bone, a cowtail, an eagle wing, the foot of another human, and, most curiously, some fifty tortoise shells deliberately arranged around the woman's body - all tell-tale signs, experts say, of her lofty social status at the time. "This is something very special; it stands apart," says Leore Grosman, the project's lead archaeologist...
...thought to belong to the Natufian culture, a nomadic society which existed along the eastern Mediterranean roughly between 11,500 and 15,000 years ago. Located near other burial sites, the woman's body was distinctly encased in a limestone enclosure, a tomb sealed by a rock slab that Grosman's team managed to lift in 2006. The following two years were spent painstakingly analyzing the remains found within. Pieces of jewelry, ornamental seashells, or the odd tool have been found in other Natufian graves, but the careful arrangement of the woman's body - her back rested against a wall...
...Grosman speculates that the elaborate ritual behind the shaman's burial probably helped bind people together at a time of great social transformation. The Natufian culture, she says, was "transitional," moving from the era of the nomadic life of hunter-gatherers into a more stable, sedentary mode. Their descendants were likely the inhabitants of West Asia's great kingdoms of antiquity. Somewhere beneath our vision of sceptered monarchs in their pillared palaces, it can be surmised, rests a hobbled woman upon a bed of tortoise shells...
DIED. Tatyana Grosman, 78, enterprising print publisher whose enthusiasm and meticulous dedication to excellence raised lithography to a new level and attracted America's leading artists, including some (Larry Rivers, Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Motherwell) who had never worked in that medium; in New York City. Her company, Universal Limited Art Editions, was based at her West Islip, N.Y., garage, which she had turned into a lively atelier. She sometimes spent months foraging for exactly the right paper for artists. Often the size of her editions, perhaps no more than 25, was determined by the number of perfect...
...Grosman's section should contact him at 547-4985 about final papers. Miss Herman's section should contact her by May 19 about grade options if they have not already done...