Female Shaman's Feather Headdress
This reconstruction shows the shaman in her full regalia Credit: Karol Schauer / Saxony-Anhalt State Office for Heritage Management and Archaeology Posted in Stone Age Archaeology Feather remains found in the funerary goods of the 9,000-year-old shaman from Bad Dürrenberg, confirming that she wore a headdress made with them by Guillermo Carvajal December 12, 2025 Archaeological science has managed to capture, in microscopic fragments smaller than one millimeter, what time and soil worked for nine millennia to decompose. A specialized study has just confirmed the presence of feather remains in the tomb of the Bad Dürrenberg shaman , one of the most exceptional and best-studied burials of Central European prehistory. The analysis, focused on organic remains as evanescent as they are significant, provides direct material evidence that c...