Prehistoric shaman found buried with leopard, human foot

November 4, 2008

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.

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