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 ...

The tomb contained the remains of a woman who may have played a spiritual role or acted as a shaman in her community ... of ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

A team of archaeologists has discovered a tomb at the Neolithic site of Çemka Höyük, located in the Upper Tigris Basin in Turkey. This tomb dates back to the 10th millennium BC and contains the ...