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The Sorcerer, Medicine Man, or Shaman. Late 19th century design after a Paleolithic or Old Stone Age image on the wall in the Trois Freres cave near St Girons, Ariege, France, created perhaps 2,500,000 years ago. He is shown wearing stag's horns, wolf's ears, and owl mask, a bear's forelegs and a horse's tail. (KEYSTONE/HERITAGE IMAGES/Oxford Science Archive)