Red Deer Headdress
Mesolithic, around 8500 BC. Star Carr, Yorkshire, England
Excavated by Grahame Clark, MAA 1953.61
Made from the skull and antlers of a red deer, this headdress may have been worn with a deer-skin costume. It is believed that people used objects like this to help them look like and act like their prey, and thus become better hunters. This suggests a particularly porous boundary between human and animal.
