Hilazon Tachtit

Its NatufianNatufian cultureA late Epipalaeolithic Levantine archaeological culture, with some long-duration settlements before fully developed agriculture.Glossary · Click to read the explanation burial use dates to c.12,400–12,000 cal BPCalibrated years before present (cal BP)A calendar dating convention anchored to 1950, distinct from an uncalibrated radiocarbon age.Glossary · Click to read the explanation, approximately 10,450–10,050 BCE, not 12,400–12,000 BCE. A woman about forty-five received more than fifty tortoise carapaces, selected animal parts and a foot from another person.^[1]

Shaman is a comparative interpretation, not an identity read from an ancient text. A separate study interprets tortoise and aurochs deposits as funerary feasting. Counts for Structure A and the woman’s grave concern different contexts.^[1][2]