We decided to make some antler head-dresses like those based on the ones found at the site of Star Carr, an early Mesolithic site. We explore a general background to these in an earlier post about Mesolithic shamanism. In this post, we will explore in more detail these head dresses, fashioned from the skulls and attached … Continue reading
Guerilla Archaeology had a grand old time at Wilderness giving formal talks and informal classroom sessions. Many people answered the call to the wild and explored their shamanic side, left hand prints and checked out the effect of geology and climate on their internal chemistry. See all the images here on Flickr. We are busy re-packing our Shamanic … Continue reading
Guerilla Archaeology will be performing at the Secret Forum, Wilderness Festival at 20.25 Friday 7th August. Come and listen to us as we draw on thousands of years of experience to bring out the beast in you and breathe new life into Shamanic ideals. British Shamans have been with us since the earliest times and … Continue reading
GA went on a day trip to the only working British ochre mines – Clearwell Caves were one of the first producers of ochres, in the late Neolithic to early Bronze-age and are now one of the last. Well worth a visit, particularly to purchase their range of ochre colours – yellow, orange, brown, red and purple and … Continue reading
Listen to this interview with Dr Henry Droselda – our shaman recorded at Secret Garden Party. Henry describes his five years living in Papua New Guinea, discusses the role that animals play in Shamanism, and his encounter with a grouse that later ended up on his Shaman Tree. There is a later interview with Dr David Luke … Continue reading
Our brakes failed on our way to SGP setting the tone for a non-stop weekend of shamanism. With our lovely yurt as a base, we invited one and all to come and talk about past, present and future shamans. We conversed with around 1000 people, inviting them to channel their inner shaman via drumming … Continue reading
We hope you have been enjoying Ffion’s writings on Shamans through time. Now come and meet us at the Secret Garden Party this weekend. You can hear Henry Droselda, a shaman, in conversation with Ffion at 4pm on Friday and Sunday and 6pm on Saturday. Come and experience shamanic transformations through disguise, identity your childhood ‘tribe’, create art, … Continue reading
This year we will be taking the Shamanic Street Preachers out to meet the public, performing at a range of exciting festivals across Britain. Prepare to wonder at the richness of human societies in the past, follow in the footsteps of ancestors and explore your wild side! The Shamanic Street Preachers draw on thousands of years … Continue reading
This week we took delivery of seven deer skulls we will be using to recreate the Star Carr head-dresses. The originals are twenty-one adult red deer skull with antlers altered to be worn as head-dresses. They all date to the Early Mesolithic, about 9,500 years old, and were discovered at the site in the Vale of Pickering, North … Continue reading
The skulls of seven deer arrived today, ready for us to work into antler head dresses. They are all relatively young males, teenagers of the deer world. Their skulls and antlers are extremely beautiful – deer bones are some of the most attractive, being extremely gracile compare to most other terrestrial mammals. We … Continue reading
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