9,000-year-old Bad Dürrenberg woman shaman burial reveals a lasting ritual legacy

Archaeologists have discovered more about one of Central Europe’s most astonishing prehistoric burials: a 9,000-year-old grave belonging to a Mesolithic woman from Bad Dürrenberg in Germany, who had long been thought to be a shaman...

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9,000-year-old Bad Dürrenberg woman shaman burial reveals a lasting ritual legacy

Archaeologists have discovered more about one of Central Europe’s most astonishing prehistoric burials: a 9,000-year-old grave belonging to a Mesolithic woman from Bad Dürrenberg in Germany, who had long been thought to be a shaman...

More information: https://archaeologymag.com/2025/12/bad-durrenberg-woman-shaman-burial/

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#archaeology #archeology #archaeologynews #baddürrenberg #Shamanism #mesolithic

"#Doggerland was named after the Dogger Bank (after 17th-century Dutch fishing boats called doggers), which formed a highland region that became submerged later than the rest of Doggerland.

The archaeological interest intensified in 1931 when a fishing trawler dragged up a barbed antler point that was subsequently dated to a time when the area was tundra. Vessels have since dragged up remains of mammoths, lions and other animals, and a few prehistoric tools and weapons. Most #archaeological evidence of human habitation dates to the #Mesolithic period during the early #Holocene."

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