Burials with toothed costume, feather headdresses, cowhide, and red-deer frontlet headpieces suggest attempts to cross human and animal realms. One proposal links ritual development to specialists claiming direct contact with “the other side,” possibly growing over thousands of years into deep prehistory. Intriguing, but this remains a hypothesis. 🦌
Shamanic burials and the origin of ritual specialists in prehistory
Key facts
- Burials show individuals interred with toothed costume, feather headdress, cowhide, and a red deer frontlet headpiece
- These items suggest people were attempting to cross the bridge between human and animal realms
- The emergence of ritual specialists claiming direct communication with 'the other side' is proposed as a driver of ritual development
- Ritual behavior may have developed over thousands of years and be deeply rooted in human prehistory
Sources
Antler headdresses - Star Carrstarcarr.com
Star Carr are the antler "frontlets" or headdresses. possibly for hunting red deer, possibly used by shamans in ritual activities. these enigmatic artefacts. ...
Deer frontlet from Star Carr and a reconstruction of the ...researchgate.net
Deer frontlet from Star Carr … perforated red-deer teeth, a burial of a man and two women. Red deer, and in particular their antlers, were often ascribed a ...
Star Carr Frontletsen.wikipedia.org
The Star Carr Frontlets are a series of modified deer skulls, probably worn by people, from the Mesolithic site at Star Carr in North Yorkshire.
Star Carr Frontlets at Yorkshire Museumyorkshiremuseum.org.uk
During the 1950's archaeologists discovered 21 red deer headdresses during excavations at the Star Carr site in North Yorkshire.
A Survival Story – Prehistoric Life at Star Carr (21 June 2018maa.cam.ac.uk
ARCHIVED EXHIBITION Red-deer frontlet. Made of deer skulls with antlers attached and holes bored into them, Large animals such as red deer and elk were hunted ...
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