The female 'shaman' was buried in the 10th century ... and may not accurately describe the role of Neolithic “shamans” like the woman buried at Çemka Höyük. He noted, however, that some ...

Reconstruction of a shaman woman; note bone rings on six fingers. Credit: M. Kunin The funerary objects found alongside her reinforce the hypothesis of her importance within Neolithic society. These ...

The tomb contained the remains of a woman who may have played a spiritual role or acted as a shaman in her community ... of her importance within Neolithic society. Most individuals were buried ...

The burial was excavated in 2019 at the archaeological site of a Neolithic settlement called ... animal remains indicate that the woman may have been a shaman or was at least buried by someone ...

A small team of archaeologists in the Republic of Türkiye has identified a woman who ... years ago in a neolithic settlement now called Çemka Höyük as a possible shaman. In 2019, diggers ...

Archaeologists think they have hit upon the ancient burial site of a female 'shaman' in southeast Türkiye. In life, as in death, scientists suspect the early Neolithic woman was 'one with' the ...

Found alongside the woman’s skeleton was an assortment ... could represent one of the oldest known shaman burial sites from the Neolithic period in Turkey. Shamans, who have existed since ...