Though the Scythians had no temples, there is ample evidence of priestly function of their kurgans and...
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Bronze Age and Iron Age religions are understood in part through archaeological records. Introduction Prehistoric religion is the religious practice...
A reconstruction of separate, conservative, universal elements of the ancient world view is feasible. Abstract Numerous burials...
Disease is thought to be caused by intrusion or soul loss, evil spirits, sorcerers, or broken taboos....
This would have been placed in a grave to embody the shaman’s power that would help the...
In Peru, the challenge of providing health care to the country’s citizens has spurred interest in alternative...
Early spiritual and religious concepts developed to deal with an occasionally but worldwide seen natural phenomenon which...
Animals have always been central to human culture, as cave paintings around the world attest. In more...
The Arctic became a place beyond empirical grasp: the real/fantasy land of orality about which those living...
Buryat shaman Tash Ool Buuevich Kunga consecrating an ovoo. / Wikimedia Commons By Dr. Olle Sundström /...
By Briony Dalton / 12.24.2016 Could Santa Actually Be a Shaman? Have you ever wondered where the...
Photo Courtesy Bugkalot Coffee Company By Dr. Henrik Hvenegaard Mikkelsen Postdoc Researcher, Anthropology University of Copenhagen 06:01...
Across millennia, the mask has been a tool of power, devotion, fear, and play. From stone visages...
The earliest periods of migration, settlement, and development are defined by archaeological evidence. Introduction The Native Peoples...
The modern tendency to separate the sacred from the pharmacological is a historical anomaly. In much of...
Organizing and participating in the Sun Dance in Canada and the United States was illegal from the...
The dead did not vanish but were transformed. By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate Introduction Across the high...
Ancient healers laid the groundwork for systematic approaches to health and disease. By Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate...
Despite the demographic and cultural devastation, indigenous peoples across the Americas survived and adapted. By Matthew A....
Indigenous nomenclature generally categorized plants according to their culinary, medicinal, or religious uses. By Dr. Joanna PageProfessor of...
Sport is a very similar type of action to religious ritual. Ritual is a category of action...
Many non-European ethnic groups and nationalities have migrated to Europe over the centuries. Interethnic Relations in Early...
Religious behavior is one of the hallmarks of behavioral modernity. Introduction Paleolithic religions are a set of spiritual beliefs and...
He was likely a pre-Hellenic god. Curated/Reviewed by Matthew A. McIntoshPublic HistorianBrewminate Introduction Hermes is an Olympian deity in ancient Greek...
Humans were hunter–gatherers for the vast majority of our existence. By Dr. David S. WhitleyPrehistoric Archaeologist and...
Prophecy was another characteristic representative of the ancient art of divination. Introduction Prophecy, by any definition, is...
The perfectibility of humanity advocated by the French Enlightenment and the mechanization of the production cycle. By...
The bestiary has been serially reinvented in more recent times, not least by writers and artists from...
The term ‘medicine’ means ‘spiritual power’. Introduction Making the Sacred Bundle is an origin story of the medicine bag from...
Speculation inspiring pseudoscientific claims that associate the site with the Garden of Eden. By Dr. Edward B....