Mirrors were practical and symbolic objects widely used.

Cannabis was used in various Scythian contexts beyond exclusively ritual ones.

We do not have a baseline “ordinary” Pazyryk elite woman’s burial against which to measure the Ice Maiden’s burial as exceptional.

The comparison class is not well-established.

The honest assessment is that the shamanic interpretation is possible, perhaps even likely, but not proven.

The Ice Maiden may have been a shaman.

She may have been an elite woman of political or social rank.