You’ll hear in this week NRC Today our series Wild centuries, the beginning. One of the narrative series we made this year: perfect for the days around Christmas.
It’s been 12,000 years. Shaman Slata walks to Göbleki Tepe, bakes bread and hallucinates on moldy rye. Will his visions advance agriculture?
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For this episode, this literature was used, among other things:
Oliver Dietrich ‘Shamanism at Early Neolithic Göbekli Tepe, southeastern Turkey. Methodological contributions to an archeology of belief’ in Praehistorische Zeitschrift, in May 2024.
Steven Mithen ‘Shamanism at the transition from foraging to agriculture in Southwest Asia: sacra, ritual, and performance at Neolithic WF16 (southern Jordan)’ in 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’, from Penguin in 2022.
Li Liu and others ‘Fermented beverage and food storage in 13,000 y-old stone mortars at Raqefet Cave, Israel: Investigating Natufian ritual feasting’ in October 2018.
Amaia Arranz-Otaeguia and others ‘Archaeobotanical evidence reveals the origins of bread 14,400 years ago in northeastern Jordan’ in PNAS, on July 13, 2018.
Leore Grosman and others ‘A Natufian Ritual Event’ Current Anthropology, in June 2016.
Marion Benz ‘Symbols of Power – Symbols of Crisis? A Psycho-Social Approach to Early Neolithic Symbol Systems’, Neolithics, in January 2014.
Leore Grosman and others ‘A 12,000-year-old Shaman burial from the southern Levant (Israel)’ in PNAS, on November 18, 2008.
Zohar Kerem and others ‘Chickpea domestication in the Neolithic Levant through the nutritional perspective’ in Journal of Archaeological Sciencein August 2007.
- Text and presentation:
- Hendrik Spiering
- Editing and direction:
- Mirjam van Zuidam
- Music, editing and mixing:
- Rufus van Baardwijk
- Image:
- Jeen Berting
- Design:
- Yannick Mortier
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