Technological Analysis of the World's Earliest Shamanic Costume: A Multi-Scalar, Experimental Study of a Red Deer Headdress from the Early Holocene Site of Star Carr, North Yorkshire, UK.

Technological Analysis of the World's Earliest Shamanic Costume: A Multi-Scalar, Experimental Study of a Red Deer Headdress from the Early Holocene Site of Star Carr, North Yorkshire, UK.

Shamanic belief systems represent the first form of religious practice visible within the global archaeological record. Here we report on the earliest known evidence of shamanic costume: modified red deer crania headdresses from the Early Holocene site of Star Carr (c. 11 kya). More than 90% of the...

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Main Authors: Aimée Little, Benjamin Elliott, Chantal Conneller, Diederik Pomstra, Adrian A Evans, Laura C Fitton, Andrew Holland, Robert Davis, Rachel Kershaw, Sonia O'Connor, Terry O'Connor, Thomas Sparrow, Andrew S Wilson, Peter Jordan, Matthew J Collins, André Carlo Colonese, Oliver E Craig, Rebecca Knight, Alexandre J A Lucquin, Barry Taylor, Nicky Milner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4830440?pdf=render

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