It was 12,000 years ago. Shaman Slata walks to Göbleki Tepe, bakes bread and hallucinates on moldy rye. Will his visions help agriculture move forward?
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This literature was used for this episode, among other things:
Oliver Dietrich ‘Shamanism at Early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe, SouthEasters Turkey. Methodological Contributions to an Archeology of Belief ‘ in Praehistorische Zeitschrift, in May 2024.
Steven Mithen “Shamism at the Transition from Foraging to Farming in Southwest Asia: Sacra, Ritual, and Performance at Neolithic WF16 (Southern Jordan)” The Journal of the Council for British Research in The Levant, in September 2022.
David Graeber and David Wengrow. ‘The Dawn of Everything, A New History of Humanity’, at Penguin in 2022.
Li Liu EA ‘Fermented Beverage and Food Storage in 13,000 y-old Stone Mortars at Raqefet Cave, Israel: Investigating Natufian Ritual Feigneing’ in in October 2018.
Amaia Arranz-onaeguia EA ‘Archaeobotanical Evidence Reveeals The Origins of Bread 14,400 years ago in Northeastern Jordan’ in Pnas, on July 13, 2018.
Leore Grosman EA ‘A Natufian Ritual Event’ Current Anthropology, in June 2016.
Marion Benz ‘Symbols of Power – Symols or Crisis? A Psycho-Social Approach To Early Neolithic Symbol Systems’,, ” Neo-Lithics, in January 2014.
Leore Grosman EA ‘A 12,000-year-old Shaman Burial from the Southern Levant (Israel)’ in Pnas, on November 18, 2008.
Zohar Kerem EA ‘Chickpea Domestication in The Neolithic Levant Through The Nutritional Perspective’ in Journal of Archaeological Sciencein August 2007.
- Text and presentation:
- Hendrik Spiering
- Editorial and direction:
- Mirjam van Zuidam
- Music, assembly and mixage:
- Rufus van Baardwijk
- Image:
- Jeen Betting
- Design:
- Yannick Mortier
- Journal of Archaeological Science:
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