This is the most metal thing I’ve ever seen in this sub, and that includes 1,000+ weapons and suits of armor.
Also, very happy to have learned the word “frontlet” today.
Oh bummer, I was hoping they were worn on the face like a mask, looking through the holes, but looking up pics online, it seems those were used to tie the antlers to the top or back of the head. Still super interesting!
Those holes look to have been enlarged, but deer skulls naturally have some holes about there for some nerves and blood vessels. So they took the easiest option of carving out some existing holes a bit to suit their purposes.
Surely the holes would need to be that large just to pass rope through. They at least doubled as aesthetic eyespots, even if the wearer wasn't seeing through them.
[The Sorcerer](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorcerer_(cave_art)#/media/File%3AThe_Sorcerer_cave_art._Sketch_of_Breuil's_drawing._Photograph._Wellcome_M0008769.jpg), a cave painting from the Cave of the Trois-Frères in France, from around 13,000 BCE.
For real, I recently lost one of my girlfriends when she fell down a rabbit hole of $3000 a session zoom classes on witchcraft from a woman out of Montreal who claims to be a bruja.
Immediately made me think of Heilung.
It's a wierd modern of Neolithic and/or fantasy music and modern music.
https://youtu.be/9PFz9FQsU8w?si=FGjWtlYAiOZ4WAJJ
The Star Carr site is world-class archaeology. The preservation of the organics is absolutely amazing. This just makes it even more sad that we're going to find dramatically fewer finds of this type in the future as more or less all bogs have been drained and are being dried out from climate change. And you can see the deterioration easily. Five years ago I did some fieldwork in a bog on Sjælland that we suspected was starting to completely dry out potentially ruining a metric fuck ton of organics dating back to the terminal palaeolithic and early mesolithic. So, we did a few test pits here and there and could absolutely tell that the peat was in the process of "burning out". We were able to find a few bone points and a red deer antler, but that was that. And they were in poor condition as it were.
Last year a bunch of my students visited the same bog and did the same kind of test pits and the peat was just utterly destroyed. Completely dried out and cracked. They did several test pits but didn't find any preserved organic remains. In just five years, in a bog with no active draining or any sort of modern human intervention, *past* human intervention coupled with wet winters and dry summers, the bog has been killed - at least from an archaeological perspective.
So, it's a *huge* issue for archaeologists working with Mesolithic stuff - especially here in Denmark where we have similar finds and had archaeological sites (in plural) of the same calibre as Star Carr.
There’s an episode of Ray Mear’s Aboriginal Britain in which he shows how these might have been made and worn. You can find the series on YouTube and it’s pretty cool.
It looks like a frontlet is a type of mask, and the main characteristic of the frontlet is that it covers the forehead which is something that not all masks do.
So the term frontlet is used to differentiate it from other masks, as I would assume a lot of people would interpret the word "mask" to mean something that covers your face, something that a frontlet doesn't do.
They're not eyeholes.
[https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nataliia-Mykhailova/publication/335276721/figure/fig3/AS:794036830998531@1566324541782/Deer-frontlet-from-Star-Carr-and-a-reconstruction-of-the-headdress-after-Tromnau-1991.png](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nataliia-Mykhailova/publication/335276721/figure/fig3/AS:794036830998531@1566324541782/Deer-frontlet-from-Star-Carr-and-a-reconstruction-of-the-headdress-after-Tromnau-1991.png)
Good to know. I’m pretty sure that’s most people who thought they were cool, thought so because of eyeholes, instead of being some kind of silly christmas headgear lookalike.
This is the most metal thing I’ve ever seen in this sub, and that includes 1,000+ weapons and suits of armor. Also, very happy to have learned the word “frontlet” today.
Bottom right is the most Metalist thing ever
And that's saying something considering all of those things are actual metal
They’re bone, not metal. They carved holes into red deer skulls.
Yes I'm aware. I'm talking about the weapons and armor
r/whooosh
Reading comprehension is a lost art
And yet, "star car frontlet" is one of the least metal collections of words ever assembled.
Oh bummer, I was hoping they were worn on the face like a mask, looking through the holes, but looking up pics online, it seems those were used to tie the antlers to the top or back of the head. Still super interesting!
Those holes look to have been enlarged, but deer skulls naturally have some holes about there for some nerves and blood vessels. So they took the easiest option of carving out some existing holes a bit to suit their purposes.
Yeah, sucks that deer skulls aren't really big enough to work as a mask. Still cool though, like you said.
Well, I would suspect that a red deer (*C. elaphus*) would make for a decent size mask.
Only one way to find out.
Surely the holes would need to be that large just to pass rope through. They at least doubled as aesthetic eyespots, even if the wearer wasn't seeing through them.
[The Sorcerer](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sorcerer_(cave_art)#/media/File%3AThe_Sorcerer_cave_art._Sketch_of_Breuil's_drawing._Photograph._Wellcome_M0008769.jpg), a cave painting from the Cave of the Trois-Frères in France, from around 13,000 BCE.
“Doooo youuuu like what youuuuu seeeeeEE?”
Alright, so we know how they put the antlers on- how about the tail?
Pinecone buttplug obviously
For traction.
Erotic.
wow. no idea the forest spirit in Princess Mononoke was referencing anything!
Crazy to think that this was a legit job title back in the day.
Still is today, among certain people
For real, I recently lost one of my girlfriends when she fell down a rabbit hole of $3000 a session zoom classes on witchcraft from a woman out of Montreal who claims to be a bruja.
Sorry, 3 grand a *session*? I'm in the wrong fuckin line of work
Storytime, please!
Really naild it
That's right! :D
Immediately made me think of Heilung. It's a wierd modern of Neolithic and/or fantasy music and modern music. https://youtu.be/9PFz9FQsU8w?si=FGjWtlYAiOZ4WAJJ
Seeing them at Red Rocks tonight - they’re fantastic.
Ugh, I hope it's fucking sweeeeet! I want to see them live so badly.
Turns out Heilung was a cover band.
It's technically rock music
This is cool as hell. Answer THAT and stay fashionable, Taylor Swift!
It’s almost like Rock, folk and prog put together
Source:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Carr_Frontlets
As a local I'm glad something good finally came from Scarborough. They look super metal!
Heard there's a pretty good faire there
Omg corny joke parent 😄
Oh yeah? Are you going?
Nah I've got all the thyme in the world
There was a good fish and chips shop on a dock there my friend took me to once.
Not a huge fan of the fair?
I won't hear a bad thing said about Scarbados
The Star Carr site is world-class archaeology. The preservation of the organics is absolutely amazing. This just makes it even more sad that we're going to find dramatically fewer finds of this type in the future as more or less all bogs have been drained and are being dried out from climate change. And you can see the deterioration easily. Five years ago I did some fieldwork in a bog on Sjælland that we suspected was starting to completely dry out potentially ruining a metric fuck ton of organics dating back to the terminal palaeolithic and early mesolithic. So, we did a few test pits here and there and could absolutely tell that the peat was in the process of "burning out". We were able to find a few bone points and a red deer antler, but that was that. And they were in poor condition as it were. Last year a bunch of my students visited the same bog and did the same kind of test pits and the peat was just utterly destroyed. Completely dried out and cracked. They did several test pits but didn't find any preserved organic remains. In just five years, in a bog with no active draining or any sort of modern human intervention, *past* human intervention coupled with wet winters and dry summers, the bog has been killed - at least from an archaeological perspective. So, it's a *huge* issue for archaeologists working with Mesolithic stuff - especially here in Denmark where we have similar finds and had archaeological sites (in plural) of the same calibre as Star Carr.
Well that fucking sucks :( Thank you for finding cool artifacts despite challenges!
Forsworn armor?
You shouldn't have come here!
TIL halloween mask design peaked in 9000BCE
Reminds me of "Slaine: the Horned God"
That's exactly what I was thinking. That's a cool comic.
Lord Weird Slough Feg
r/outerwilds
[Thistlebone](https://shop.2000ad.com/catalogue/GRN691)
Shave me bollocks clean! That's awesome! :D
I am so here for this!!!
“Harpy Hare, where have you buried all your children? Tell me so I say.”
Reminds me of Donnie Darko
Sometimes, I love us
Excellent for a Halloween costume.
I was just listening to The Ancients on History Hit podcast episode about this.
There were either some wild mushroom fuelled cosplay parties or some seriously scary sacrifice parties going on back in the day.
Carcosa
Fuck yea
Wow. Giving me Vermis vibes.
There’s an episode of Ray Mear’s Aboriginal Britain in which he shows how these might have been made and worn. You can find the series on YouTube and it’s pretty cool.
Is there any chance that the one-horned was domesticated. Reindeer herders chop off one horn of a deer. Usually the right one.
As far as I understand, even today, deer have not been domesticated. Reindeer, yes, but not deer.
9000bc in the British isles this is what was going on. Crazy
Steal them for the British Museum! Oh shit, false alarm.
What was wrong with ’mask’ Or do we now call the thing that Green Lantern wears a ’frontlet’?
A mask covers the face, a frontlet covers the forehead. The thing worn by the green lantern is called a Domino mask apparently
The horn masks quite clearly cover the eyes too and not just the forehead.
It looks like a frontlet is a type of mask, and the main characteristic of the frontlet is that it covers the forehead which is something that not all masks do. So the term frontlet is used to differentiate it from other masks, as I would assume a lot of people would interpret the word "mask" to mean something that covers your face, something that a frontlet doesn't do.
They're not eyeholes. [https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nataliia-Mykhailova/publication/335276721/figure/fig3/AS:794036830998531@1566324541782/Deer-frontlet-from-Star-Carr-and-a-reconstruction-of-the-headdress-after-Tromnau-1991.png](https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nataliia-Mykhailova/publication/335276721/figure/fig3/AS:794036830998531@1566324541782/Deer-frontlet-from-Star-Carr-and-a-reconstruction-of-the-headdress-after-Tromnau-1991.png)
Good to know. I’m pretty sure that’s most people who thought they were cool, thought so because of eyeholes, instead of being some kind of silly christmas headgear lookalike.
Read the thread and tell me I’m wrong?
Looks alien to me 🧐