There isn't enough known about the Star Carr frontlet to say if it was for certain used as a hunting disguise or if it was for ritualistic purposes, but this is back in the day when hunters didn't have the luxury of sniping their prey from afar, so they needed to get as close to their prey as possible. It may have been both, for hunting and for rituals.
It's interesting to me to see how the numerous climate changes affecting England (or any of the northern latitudes) played such a major role in our development.
Survival wasn't easy, not least because of numerous adverse climatic changes: on four separate occasions the northern latitudes experienced ice ages resulting insuccessive waves of freezing and thawing, and triggering migrations or widespread death. In fact, the development of human culture during Paleolithic times was repeatedly and profoundly affected by environmental factors. Paleolithic humans were food gatherers, who depended for their subsistence on hunting wild animals, fishing, and collecting berries, fruits and nuts. It wasn't until about 8,000 BCE that more secure methods of feeding (agriculture and animal domestication) were adopted.- from here
Finding collections of tools from the cusp between the end of the paleolithic era and the beginning of the mesolithic era, or even the fragments from their manufacture, really sheds some light on early modern mans history!
