DHE, OLD; STONE AGE 
of a man leaning forward and apparently dancing. Long 
hairy ears and the horns of a stag adorn his head, and a 
pointed beard seems to be indicated, while he also wears 
a horse’s tail. We have here, no doubt, a representation 
of a witch doctor, or shaman, tricked out in all his savage 
Fic. 59. Red deer and salmon, engraved on a piece of rein- 
deer antler; scene may represent a herd crossing a stream as 
indicated by the fish. Marks in the upper right-hand corner 
may be the artist’s signature. After Piette 
regalia and stamping and shuffling about in some hunting 
dance. Since even back in the Aurignacian epoch man 
seems already to have conceived of supernatural beings as 
possessing human form, possibly we have here something 
of the same sort. The figure may not be the representation 
of any earthly medicine man but of some mythological 
concept—some “Divine Huntsman,” invoked for aid in 
the chase. At all events it indicates that Magdalenian 
man had reached a point in the development of his re- 
ligious beliefs quite equal to that of many modern peoples 
and in advance of some. 
The care which he bestowed upon the burial of his dead 
further indicates this. Again we see the persistence of 
customs originating in Aurignacian times, if not indeed 
earlier still. Bodies were provided with necklaces, girdles, 
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