This headdress is just one of numerous artifacts discovered in 1934 in the lavish grave of a woman who lived during the European Mesolithic period (15000 to 5000 B.C.). The unique array of grave goods ...

The woman's skeleton was also atypical in that her first cervical vertebra, which connects the spine to the skull ... a shamanic mask and headdress. The Bad Dürrenberg shaman was one of the ...