Signs of First Feast Held at Shaman Burial Site

The unearthing of seventy-one tortoise shells in Israel at a 12,000 year old burial site is being reported as the earliest human ritual feast evidenced. The grave site is an excavated floor area of a cave which was lined with stone slabs that were plastered with clay. The body found inside the grave was that of a woman believed to have been a shaman. The tortoise shells (remains from the feasting ceremony) were placed beneath, around, and above the shaman's remains. Anthropologist, Natalie Munro, has concluded that the burial findings indicate her shaman status among her people and also a special relationship with the animal world. Along with the tortoise shells was the wing of a golden eagle, the pelvis of a leopard, also a human foot.

Research by archaeologist Leore Grosman reveals that the woman was a member of the Natufian culture, and was probably considered having the ability to communicate with the spirit world... read more discoveries.

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