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.
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10.1371/journal.pone.0152136
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2016
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3.7
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Milner N
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Little A;Elliott B;Conneller C;Pomstra D;Evans AA;Fitton LC;Holland A;Davis R;Kershaw R;O'Connor S;O'Connor T;Sparrow T;Wilson AS;Jordan P;Collins MJ;Colonese AC;Craig OE;Knight R;Lucquin AJ;Taylor B;Milner N
萨满教信仰体系是全球考古记录中可见的第一种宗教实践形式。在这里，我们报告了已知的最早的萨满教服装的证据：从全新世早期的Star Carr遗址(约11 kya)修改的马鹿头饰。史前欧洲90%以上的例子来自这一遗址，使其成为具有杰出萨满教/宇宙学意义的地方。我们的工作包括实验复制、宏观痕迹分析、有机残留物分析和3D图像获取、计量和可视化，这是理解用于制造这些文物的制造过程的第一次尝试。产生的结果是意想不到的--与其说是精心制作的物品，不如说是它们的生产元素只能被描述为权宜之计。
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.