Et dans cette tombe, le squelette d'une femme avec de nombreux symboles interprétés comme liés à la Mort, la communication avec les esprits etc...
Les auteurs, avec une argumentation convaincante, suggèrement qu'il s'agit en fait de la tombe du premier des Shaman (en l'occurence une Shaman). A l'heure d'aujourd'hui, bien entendu.
A la lecture de l'article, un seul réel mystère (pour moi) :
Quel est la place et/ou la symbolique du squelette de pied humain complet accompagnant les restes d'aigle ou autres léopard ?
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 Nov 3
A 12,000-year-old shaman burial from the southern Levant (Israel).
Grosman L, Munro ND, Belfer-Cohen A.
Institute of Archaeology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel;
The Natufians of the southern Levant (15,000-11,500 cal BP) underwent pronounced socioeconomic changes associated with the onset of sedentism and the shift from a foraging to farming lifestyle. Excavations at the 12,000-year-old Natufian cave site, Hilazon Tachtit (Israel), have revealed a grave that provides a rare opportunity to investigate the ideological shifts that must have accompanied these socioeconomic changes. The grave was constructed and specifically arranged for a petite, elderly, and disabled woman, who was accompanied by exceptional grave offerings. The grave goods comprised 50 complete tortoise shells and select body-parts of a wild boar, an eagle, a cow, a leopard, and two martens, as well as a complete human foot. The interment rituals and the method used to construct and seal the grave suggest that this is the burial of a shaman, one of the earliest known from the archaeological record. Several attributes of this burial later become central in the spiritual arena of human cultures worldwide.
