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Excavation near Jerusalem finds 9,000-year-old six-fingered Neolithic shaman womanThe woman had six fingers on her left hand, a characteristic that in ancient cultures was often interpreted as a sign of ...
Reconstruction of a shaman woman; note bone rings on six fingers. Credit: M. Kunin The funerary objects found alongside her reinforce the hypothesis of her importance within Neolithic society. These ...
Experts say the discovery "opens a window into the spiritual world of communities that lived approximately 10,000 years ago.” ...
One of the women — estimated to be about 30-35 years old — was found in a crouch-burial position, the report said. The position has been documented as early as the Later Neolithic era ...
A Copper Age tomb yielded some 270,000 beads adorning the clothes and finery of young women buried in collective vaults ...
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