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.
10.
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
