The remains found in a Bronze Age barrow not far from Stonehenge known as Upton Lovell G2a have long been seen as portraying the main occupant of the burial as a shaman.
But is that really who he was?
It is said that the way you look at something changes the thing you’re looking at and now it seems that a new study of the so-called Upton Lovell shaman tells a much more nuanced and exiting story.
00:00 - Intro & Titles
00:34 - Background to new study
02:45 - New interpretations available
03:42 - Historical context for the study
06:09 - Some detail about the burial
08:26 - Informing how we look at grave goods in the future?
10:05 - What was in the toolkit?
13:11 - Why was he labelled ‘shaman’ in the first place?
16:26 - A few headlines!
17:22 - Grounds for reappraisal of other burials?
18:24 - Rounding up & goodbyes
PRIMARY SOURCE: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/materials-in-movement-gold-and-stone-in-process-in-the-upton-lovell-g2a-burial/3BBA3D012898FA68D9F35EA27478BE03
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