Pásztor Emília (szerk.): Sámánizmus és természethit régen és ma - Bajai dolgozatok 23. (Baja, 2019)

Jaromir Kovárnik: Az őskori ember hitvilágának tanulmányozása. A sámánizmus kutatása a régészetben

A probe into the spiritual life of prehistoric people, a reflection of shamanism in archaeology

Fig. 15. Liubcova, Caraç-Severin district (Banat, Romania). Woman's statuette with a mask on her left and a jar in her right hand, the Vinca culture (by Lazarovici 1990-1991, 15, Fig. 4; Kovárník 2004, 172, Fig. 1).

15. kép . Liubcova, Bánát, Románia. Női szobor, álarc a bal, és korsó a jobb kezében. Vinca kultúra.

large pits, for example because of their different age compared to the age of the rondel. We consider the absolutely logical, yet heretical question of whether these excellent findings are unrelated to the division of the year into four seasons with three months? It would be another significant „knowhow" of shamans, these selected members of the late Neolithic (about 4800 BC).

Ritual masks

Rituals could include rituals with masks and various vessels. A woman (eventually a man) who had been performing a ritual ceremony was another being. Ritual practices apparently related to the role of shamans / (woman) shamans (or priests?) illustrate totally unique findings of masks in the late Neolithic (and Eneolithic). The unmistakable mask had the female statuette „Vidovdanka" from the settlement Vinca - Belo Brdo (Serbia). On the face are to see mainly eyes and nose. The mask is clearly visible from the profile. There is also a head of the figure with a mask or another head of a statuette with a mask. There is a hole on each side. These holes were used apparently to fasten.2 Very famous is the female statue again Vinca culture from the settlement Liubcova on the left bank of the Danube (Banat, Judetul Cara§-Severin, Romania). The

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