Shamanism in the Palaeolithic and beyond

[TylerDurden]

Here's an interesting resume of shamanism focusing partly on the cave-paintings found in those Cro-Magnon caves:-

http://www.mystae.com/restricted/streams/scripts/shamanism.html

It goes into detail on how Palaeolithic shamans went into trance in order to do those cave-paintings and would use hallucinogenic substances(mushrooms?) etc. in order to achieve that state.