Encore: What 9,000 year old remains in Germany tell us about human development : State of the World from NPR
The skull and bones of a female shaman buried in Bad Dürrenberg 9000 years ago lie on a table in the Saxony-Anhalt State Office for Archaeology. The find was recovered in the 1930s and has already been scientifically processed once. Now scientists have re-examined the site.
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In this encore episode, we learn about our evolving understanding of an ancient find. When a 9,000 year-old grave of a shaman was discovered in 1930s Germany, the discovery was quickly politicized to support Nazi propaganda. But new analysis shows those assumptions were all wrong.
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