June
05
/ 2021
Imagine this: 8,000-years-ago ancient hunters ritualistically danced wearing rattling elk teeth to enhance their hypnotic states of consciousness. Now, a Finish researcher has recreated an ancient elk tooth rattle and danced while wearing it for six hours, thereby accessing the soundscape of the ancient world. The researcher recreated the 8,000-year-old ritual clothing and after a “six-hour dance” revealed that the dancing teeth marks matched the marks found on the clothing. What this means, according to the author of a new paper, is that with elk teeth tied around their bodies, “rattling percussively as they moved,” Stone Age humans danced in “a strange psychedelic way.” [[{"type":"media","view_mode":"media_large","fid":"86775","attributes":{"alt":"Believe it or not, the oldest artifact ever found in Eurasia is an elk tooth pendant
