Since the Natufians may represent the forerunners of Semitic-speaking peoples in the Middle East, I gave my shaman a forehead tattoo in the form of a hamsa hand symbol associated with pre-Islamic Semitic religions.

Map of distribution of Natufian sites found in modern Israel and Palestine. The Natufian Culture (15 000 - 11 500 BCE) was a prehistoric culture with early signs of sedentary lifestyle and has proof of the oldest developments of domestication of plants and dogs, burial of the death, beer-brewing and baking, preceding the rest of West Asia by 4 000 years.

"Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" - Kyle Harper

"Plagues Upon the Earth: Disease and the Course of Human History" - Kyle Harper

A Natufian woman from the Mesolithic Fertile Crescent rests on a log, sulking in an annoyed mood. I drew this to cope with my own irritated mood after encountering yet another example of ignorance online, and it turned out to be quite therapeutic indeed.

The 12,000-year-old sound-making instruments from Eynan-Mallaha, Israel. Image credit: Davin et al., doi: 10.1038/s41598-023-35700-9.

Hershkovitz, I., & Arensburg, B. (2017). Human Fossils from the Upper Palaeolithic through the Early Holocene. In Y. Enzel & O. Bar-Yosef (Eds.), Quaternary of the Levant: Environments, Climate Change, and Humans (pp. 611-620). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/9781316106754.068