Origins of human-avian ceremonial traditions. American Anthropological Association / American Anthro

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Some personal ornamental traditions that extend beyond basic human needs are found among indigenous people worldwide. One such tradition is the adornment of bird feathers, either individually or in full avian dress, that are typically associated with ceremonial flight/spirituality. The common details of such evidence suggest that indigenous peoples either developed such a tradition at least early in the Upper Paleolithic before world-wide dispersals; there have been hyper-diffusions of this tradition in the past few thousand years; or that animistic peoples worldwide independently developed such a tradition through a basic connection to the natural world. One avenue to consider this question is through cave art from Upper Paleolithic Europe that is contemporaneous with findings of early cave art in Southeast Asia, and have occurred before the earliest known migrations from Siberia into North America. Any such common examples of human-avian ceremonial practices would potentially refute pre-European contact hyper-diffusion human-avian spirituality proposals. This study examined these questions through cave art dating to approximately 34,000 years ago and compared that record with traditions from the North American anthropological literature. The findings indicate that avian dress appearing in early Upper Paleolithic cave art is consistent with traditions found in the North American anthropological literature and that any North American inheritance could have derived from early in the Upper Paleolithic to be later carried on Beringian migrations.

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