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Natural PlacesSite Name: Hilazon Tachtit Alternative Name: Witch's Cave, Lower Hilazon
Country: Israel Type: Cave or Rock Shelter
Nearest Town: Karmi'el
Latitude: 32.898766N  Longitude: 35.270695E
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Hilazon Tachtit submitted by motist : Archaeologists Unearth Unique 12,000-year-old Galilee Grave of Female Shaman The excavation at Hilazon Tachtit. Next to the remains of a female shaman unearthed there were a number of different animal bones, tools and shells.Credit: Naftali Hilger (Vote or comment on this photo)
Cave in Northern Galilee.
Small cave west of the Sea of Galilee, where artifacts of the Natufian culture (ca. 13,000BC - 9,600BC, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon) were found in recent excavations.

Of most importance is the grave of a disabled woman in her 40s, buried with animals remains, and thought to be a shaman. Her tomb and its remains of a burial feast is one of the earliest instances of such a ceremony.

Note: In Israel, Remains of Ancient Feast to Honor Dead Shaman Discovered.
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Hilazon Tachtit
Hilazon Tachtit submitted by motist : Archaeologists Unearth Unique 12,000-year-old Galilee Grave of Female Shaman The excavation site of Hilazon CaveCredit: Naftali Hilger (Vote or comment on this photo)

Hilazon Tachtit
Hilazon Tachtit submitted by motist : Archaeologists Unearth Unique 12,000-year-old Galilee Grave of Female Shaman One of the 86 tortoise shells found in the burial of a woman, possibly a shaman, dating to 12,000 years ago and found in Hilazon Cave, the Galilee, Israel.Credit: Leore Grosman (Vote or comment on this photo)

Hilazon Tachtit
Hilazon Tachtit submitted by motist : Archaeologists Unearth Unique 12,000-year-old Galilee Grave of Female Shaman The bones of a 1.5 meter-tall woman lying in situ at her burial site, surrounded by tortoise shells and myriad other bones and objects, at Hilazon Cave.Credit: Naftali Hilger (Vote or comment on this photo)

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Archaeologists Unearth Unique 12,000-year-old Galilee Grave of Female Shaman by Andy B on Tuesday, 05 July 2016
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Well-preserved findings in burial cave from Natufian era 12,000 years ago shed light on surprisingly complex funereal rituals. A human foot and 86 tortoise shells were just some of the extraordinary finds discovered in the prehistoric grave of a female shaman in the Galilee, in northern Israel, dating back some 12,000 years.

Also found in what archaeologists suspect was the burial site of a female shaman, who was living in a hunter-gatherer society, were an eagle’s wing, a leopard’s pelvic bone, the leg of a pig, and tailbone from a cow, and much more.

The unique features of the woman’s interment have shed new light on human society during the late Natufian era (10,800-9,500 B.C.E.), and on how the ancients treated the dead, according to the archaeological team led by Prof. Leore Grosman of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Prof. Natalie Munro of Connecticut University. The revelations have allowed the team to speculatively reenact the woman’s funerary ceremony.

Recovery of the well-preserved grave of this unusual woman, and the generally high quality of preservation in the cave unearthed at this Galilee site, called Hilazon Tachtit (Lower Hilazon River), enable identification of the multiple stages of a funereal ceremony. They constitute evidence of a number of activities related to ritual performances, as well as leading to broader generalizations about Natufian practices during a dynamic era preceding the transition to agricultural society.

As for the shaman herself – if that is indeed what she was – in reaching age 45, she had lived a relatively long life for people of that era. She was very short, practically a dwarf, and also suffered from a variety of diseases and distortions that must have made her look quite unusual.

More at Haaretz news

With thanks to Motist for the news
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Ancient Sorcerer's "Wake" Was First Feast for the Dead? by bat400 on Monday, 01 November 2010
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Remains of Ancient Feast to Honor Dead Shaman Discovered by bat400 on Monday, 01 November 2010
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Prehistoric leftovers of a feast 12,000 years ago at an apparent shaman's gravesite have been unearthed in what is now Israel. Archaeologists say the ritual might be the first clear evidence of feasting in early humans, a sign of the kinds of increasingly complex societies that proved crucial to the dawn of agriculture.

In a cave above a creek in the Galilee region of northern Israel, scientists discovered the body of a petite, elderly, disabled woman, most probably a shaman, in 2005. As they continued to excavate, they found the woman apparently was intentionally laid to rest in a specially crafted hollow between the remains of at least 71 Mediterranean tortoises, as well as with seashells, beads, stone tools and bone tools. In a separate pit nearby, they also found bones of at least three wild, extinct cattle known as aurochs.

The cattle bones showed clear signs of butchery, with the bones cracked for marrow, while there were enough tortoises to supply meat for at least 35 people. Signs of burning were seen on both the cattle and turtle remains, suggesting they were cooked.

Altogether, these large amounts of meat seen in these roughly 12,000-year-old deposits might be remnants of a ritual feast held to commemorate the dead shaman, the researchers said.

The act of sharing food communally in a feast is one of the most universal and important behaviors seen in humanity, taking center stage in everything from the Last Supper to Thanksgiving. Although evidence for feasting is common in the early agricultural societies of the Neolithic, such evidence of pre-Neolithic, pre-agricultural feasting proved more elusive until now.

"Scientists have speculated that feasting began before the Neolithic period, which starts about 11,500 years ago," said researcher Natalie Munro, a zooarchaeologist at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. "This is the first solid evidence that supports the idea that communal feasts were already occurring, perhaps with some frequency, at the beginnings of the transition to agriculture."

In this period, once-nomadic groups of people were settling down into lasting communities, which could place tremendous pressure on local resources. Population growth also ramped up, meaning people were coming into contact with each other a lot more often, "and that can create friction," Munro said.

Feasting may have thus helped people bond, easing the shift toward full-fledged agricultural societies.

"We believe that the detection of feasting at this early date signifies important culture changes," Munro told LiveScience. "These rituals foreshadow those that occur later in the Neolithic agricultural period. The fact that these rituals are becoming more intensive at an earlier date than previously indicated demonstrates that the social changes that accompany the agricultural transition were already in place at its very beginning."

Munro and her colleague Leore Grosman detailed their findings online Aug. 30 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

For more, see http://www.livescience.com/history/ancient-feast-dead-shaman-remains-discovered-100830.html.
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