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A handout picture released by Israel�s Antiquity Authority shows tortoise shells found during excavations in the Natufian culture in Hilazon Tachtit, in the Galilee area of northern Israel.

Archaeologists have found the 12,000-old skeleton of a female shaman buried in northern Israel alongside 50 tortoises, body parts of a leopard, a boar and other animals as well as a human foot.

The burial site is among the earliest known of a shaman, or healer, according to the archaeological team led by Leore Grosman of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.