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May 7, 2023 · The first example of a possible Mesolithic shaman comes from the site of Bad Dürrenburg, Germany, and dates to around 7000 BCE. This individual has been skeletally sexed as female and was buried in a flexed, upright position.
It wasn’t until the late 1970s that radiocarbon dating showed that the bones were 9,000 years old, predating farming in central Europe by about 2,000 years and confirming earlier suspicions...
The earliest known undisputed burial of a shaman (and by extension the earliest undisputed evidence of shamans and shamanic practices) dates back to the early Upper Paleolithic era (c. 30,000 BP) in what is now the Czech Republic.
Sep 21, 2016 · The excavation of the burial at Hilazon Tachtit Cave was first published in 2008 in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Since then, Grosman and Munro have reconstructed the funerary ritual conducted for this shaman, recently reporting their analysis in Current Anthropology.
Apr 23, 2020 · Even in Anglo-Saxon times – 900 years after the Iron Age trio had been interred – people were deliberately choosing to be buried in that by then very ancient ceremonial area.
- David Keys
Jul 26, 2018 · Early explorers assumed biological males dressed in women’s clothing (some of whom were shamans) were transvestites, and the pejorative French term berdache (“male prostitute,” “transvestite”) entered anthropological literature.
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Nov 3, 2008 · Archaeologists working in Israel now claim that a 12,000-year-old grave of a woman buried with various animal and human body parts is that of an early shaman. If true, it could mean that shamanism arose during a critical period in human cultural evolution.
