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15th July 20261st August 2026

A sha-lady after all: the Upton Lovell shaman was a woman

Bronze Age woman in a bone-fringed cloak on chalk downland at sunset, freshly built white chalk barrows on the ridge behind. — The Upton Lovell woman, as a witch photographer would. The single fringe of drilled bone points, the two hammered gold discs, the dark touchstone in her palm and the raw white chalk of the barrows behind her all come from the record.

Well, well, well. The Upton Lovell shaman, dug out of a Wiltshire barrow in the early 1800s and shown off ever since as a bearded bloke in a bone cloak, turns out to have been a woman – a shamanka. Ancient DNA, three separate bones, the same answer each time. She lived around 3,800 ya (BC 1,800), and she was buried barely 10 miles (16km) west of Stonehenge.

Derived from the Tungusic word šaman meaning “one who knows” a shamanka is a female shaman. The word combines the term “shaman” with the Russian feminine suffix “-ka.”