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...sparrows - animals that exist most commonly in places of human settlement - point to a significant population boom in the Natufian period. They may not have had seasonal harvests, but the people of this time lived in a complex and perhaps even flourishing society. "What we see [with the Natufian burial rites] is the beginning of a tribal system," says Bar-Yosef. The shaman, buried with her mysteries, looms mercurially over this moment...
...grave is 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...
When Saltwater crocodiles killed a human on Australia's northeast coast in the old days, a posse of gun-toting locals would converge on the area, blast all crocs to death, slit open their bellies to establish guilt, and release the unfortunate victim's remains for a decent burial. But in these environmentally enlightened times, authorities are taking a very different approach - and not everybody is happy about...
...with so many other businesses in the current credit crunch, the undertakers face a liquidity problem. And it's not only among the state-assisted burials for the destitute that earnings are down: Many middle-class families pay for funeral services with profits from the sale of the deceased's property; with the British property market in free fall, the NAFD says families are opting for less opulent burial services. The reduction of earnings leads to cash shortages among undertakers, which means that many of them require loans to cover the expenses of welfare funerals as they wait...
...Pugh says some of the difficulty of retrieving funeral costs from families comes from their sense of closure following burial. "After funerals emotions change so much; people put the death behind them, move on, and it can be difficult to get them to address anything to do with the funeral, including the money. Who pays for it becomes irrelevant [to them...