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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
- Source :
- PLoS ONE, Vol 11, Iss 4, p e0152136 (2016), Little, A, Elliott, B, Conneller, C, Fitton, L, O'Connor, T, Collins, M, Colonese, A, Craig, O, Lucquin, A, Taylor, B & Milner, N 2016, ' 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 ', PLoS ONE, vol. 14, no. 1 . https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0152136, PLoS ONE, PLoS ONE, 11(4):e0152136. PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
- Publication Year :
- 2016
- Publisher :
- Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2016.
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Abstract
- 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 examples from prehistoric Europe come from this one site, establishing it as a place of outstanding shamanistic/cosmological significance. Our work, involving a programme of experimental replication, analysis of macroscopic traces, organic residue analysis and 3D image acquisition, metrology and visualisation, represents the first attempt to understand the manufacturing processes used to create these artefacts. The results produced were unexpected-rather than being carefully crafted objects, elements of their production can only be described as expedient.
- Subjects :
- 0301 basic medicine
History
Archaeological record
Mesolithic Period
Social Sciences
Stone Age
lcsh:Medicine
Antlers
Astronomical Sciences
Cultural Anthropology
Sociology
Medicine and Health Sciences
0601 history and archaeology
Animal Anatomy
lcsh:Science
Musculoskeletal System
History, Ancient
Holocene
Mammals
Multidisciplinary
060102 archaeology
biology
Geology
Ruminants
06 humanities and the arts
Celestial Objects
Religion
Archaeology
Vertebrates
Physical Sciences
Anatomy
Research Article
Carr
Prehistory
03 medical and health sciences
Animals
Humans
Skeleton
Mesolithic
POTTERY
Crania
Deer
Skull
lcsh:R
Organisms
Biology and Life Sciences
Shamanism
Geologic Time
biology.organism_classification
Stars
United Kingdom
PRODUCTS
030104 developmental biology
Anthropology
BURIAL
Amniotes
Earth Sciences
lcsh:Q
Pottery
Zoology
Head
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 19326203
- Volume :
- 11
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- PLoS ONE
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f22f40be8635d6cc7d021a69595e824d