Later Stone Age rock painting interpreted by recent scholars as recording a shamanistic trance dance known as simbo
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Later Stone Age rock painting interpreted by recent scholars as recording a shamanistic trance dance known as simbo

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Later Stone Age rock painting interpreted by recent scholars as recording a shamanistic trance dance known as simbo, Dancers on the brink of trance may be restrained from violent convulsions. Dancers in trance often see others as fused with the potency of animals such as the antelope head on the right here. Tanzania. Sandawe. Paleolithic period.

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Photo12/Universal Images Group/Werner Forman

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UMG12A32_028

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