Shamanism: an introduction -- Beyond the stone gates: later Palaeolithic ritual practice -- Swans' wings and chamber tombs: searching for Shamans in the Mesolithic and Neolithic -- Rocks and gold: bronze age shamanism? -- Priests, politics and power: controlling the supernatural in Iron Age Europe -- Monsters, gender-benders and ritualists in the Roman Empire and beyond -- Myths and magic: shape-shifting and Shamanism in early celtic literature.