Mesolithic
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The document summarizes archaeological findings from a Neolithic site in Denmark dated to around 5000 BC. Remains of both cremated and inhumated individuals, including infants and adults, were found in pits and single and double graves. A dog burial was also discovered. In one double grave, a 40-year-old woman and 3-year-old child were buried together. Evidence of violence was seen on some of the skeletons. Red ochre and amulet beads were placed with the dead. One woman showed signs of a healed head injury, possibly caused by a blunt object.
Mesolithic
- 2. • Cremations • Inhumations • Scaffolding of individuals
- 7. Gøngehusvej/Vedbaek 5000BC • inhumated and cremated. • pits and graves –single and joint • remains of both infants and adults • A dog burial • In a double-grave lay a woman around 40 years old and a 3-year-old child. • Evidence of violence • Red ochre had been sprinkled over the skeletons in the grave • the dead had been given amulet beads from red and roe deer, wild boar, elk, bear and aurochs.
- 9. An injury to the back of her head shows that the woman from Gøngehusvej was hit with a blunt object. She must have survived this blow, because the wound has healed. However, such a heavy blow may have caused some degree of brain damage and probably led to reduced hearing or sight. The reason why the woman received a blow to the head is unknown. By her head was a large bone hairpin and a grebe bill, which may once have been part of a hat made of bird skin. Perhaps this headgear hid the scar at the base of her head.
- 11. Features of shamans • Spirits exist and they play important roles both in individual lives and in human society. • The shaman can communicate with the spirit world. • Spirits can be benevolent or malevolent. • The shaman can treat sickness caused by malevolent spirits. • The shaman can employ trance inducing techniques to incite visionary ecstasy and go on vision quests. • The shaman's spirit can leave the body to enter the supernatural world to search for answers. • The shaman evokes animal images as spirit guides, omens, and message-bearers. • The shaman can tell the future, scry, throw bones/runes, and perform other varied forms of divination