Editing Natufian culture (section)

===Burials===
[[File:El-Wad Homo25 in Rockefeller Museum.jpg|thumb|Natufian burial – Homo 25 from [[el-Wad Cave]], Mount Carmel, Israel (Rockefeller Museum)]]
Natufian [[grave goods]] are typically made of shell, teeth (of [[red deer]]), bones, and stone. There are pendants, bracelets, necklaces, earrings, and belt-ornaments as well.

[[File:Israel Museum Stone Age.jpg|thumb|upright|left|Schematic human figure made of pebbles, from [[Eynan]], Early Natufian, 12,000 BC]]
In 2008, the 12,400–12,000 cal BC grave of an apparently significant Natufian female was discovered in a ceremonial pit in the [[Hilazon Tachtit]] cave in northern Israel.<ref name="GrosmanMunro2008">{{cite journal|last1=Grosman|first1=L.|last2=Munro|first2=N. D.|last3=Belfer-Cohen|first3=A.|title=A 12,000-year-old Shaman burial from the southern Levant (Israel)|journal=Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|volume=105|issue=46|year=2008|pages=17665–17669|issn=0027-8424|doi=10.1073/pnas.0806030105|pmid=18981412|pmc=2584673|bibcode=2008PNAS..10517665G|doi-access=free}}</ref>  Media reports referred to this person as a "shaman".<ref name="NationalGeo2008" /> The burial contained the remains of at least three [[aurochs]] and 86 tortoises, all of which are thought to have been brought to the site during a funeral feast.  The body was surrounded by tortoise shells, the pelvis of a [[leopard]], forearm of a [[boar]], a wingtip of a [[golden eagle]], and skull of a [[beech marten]].<ref name="Burston" /><ref>{{Citation|last=Hogenboom|first=Melissa|title=Secrets of the world's oldest funeral feast|date=24 May 2016|url=http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160520-secrets-of-the-worlds-oldest-funeral-feast|series=earth|publisher=BBC|access-date=24 May 2016}}</ref>