Replication of Mesolithic Red Deer Headdress

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Scientists have been trying to figure out how they were made.

http://www.archaeology.org/news/4383-160414-star-carr-headdress

"YORK, ENGLAND—An international team of archaeologists led by Aimée Little of the University of York recreated shamanic headdresses like the ones unearthed at Star Carr, an Early Mesolithic site in North Yorkshire, with ancient tools. But first, they examined the headdresses with 3-D laser scanning to analyze the cut marks made in the red deer crania. They think the first step in producing the headwear involved packing the skull with clay and baking it in embers to remove the skin and make the bone easier to work. Then some of the antler may have been removed to make the headdress lighter. Those antler pieces could then have been used to make barbed points for hunting and fishing. It’s also possible that the antler blanks were removed after the headdress had been worn as a way to recycle them. “This is the only site in Britain where they are found, and there are only a few other headdresses known from Germany. This work into how they might have been made has given us an important glimpse into what life was like 11,000 years ago,” Star Carr excavation co-leader Nicky Milner said in a UPI report on the project. To read about another discovery at Star Carr, go to "Mesolithic Markings.""

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Amazing! Who would have thought Mesolithic people had such elaborate head dress?

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Amazing! Who would have thought Mesolithic people had such elaborate head dress?

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Since red deer antlers are invoked with shamanistic rituals, I'm going to post in a philosophical perspective and philosophical coincidences.


On the contrary, Deer has been engrained into Celtic Slavic and Germanic Mythology; all of the sites are located where those ancient civilizations had flourished.


NE Gaul west of the Rhine: Cernunnos; Although Star Carr/ Parissi doesn't appear to have any signs of Cernunnos in their mythology with the exception of Paris unless the Romans abolished them, undiscovered or never existed in ancient Yorkshire


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedburg-Königshoven_(Mesolithic_antler_frontlets)


Germanic: Vohen Vichelan
Eikþyrnir the stag of Valhalla


Slavic(more specifically Wendish territory): Golden Horned deer Fairytale
Berlin-Biastorf and Plau, Germany


Even the ancient Greeks mentioned the deer lived in a northerly land where the sun never sets; similar to the Arctic circle in the Summer time?


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deer_in_mythology#


But that is a matter of faith and spirituality. Anyhow regardless, considering that the horns are dated roughly 9000 bc, it appears that all of the finds are in the right place in the right time to have at least some Ahrensburg Culture influence


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ahrensburg_culture
 
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