Stone Age Gender Bender: Was 5,000-Year-Old Skeleton Gay?
Published April 07, 2011
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David Hunt, North Carolina State University
An ancient grave may hide more than just a skeleton: Was this the first gay caveman?
Archaeologists digging a site in the Czech Republic recently unearthed the skeleton of a 5,000-year-old man, buried on his left side with his head facing West. And that's enough for researcher Katerina Semradova to slap a few labels on him.
"We believe this is one of the earliest cases of what could be described as a transvestite or third-gender grave in the Czech Republic," she told reporters at a press conference Tuesday. According to Semradova and lead researcher Kamila Remisova, during that period men were traditionally buried lying on their right side, with the head pointing toward the west.
Clearly, something was amiss.
In addition, the "gay caveman" was buried with household jugs, rather than the weapons, hammers and flint knives typically seen in graves of men.
Stone Age Gender Bender: Was 5,000-Year-Old Skeleton Gay?
Published April 07, 2011
| FoxNews.com
David Hunt, North Carolina State University
An ancient grave may hide more than just a skeleton: Was this the first gay caveman?
Archaeologists digging a site in the Czech Republic recently unearthed the skeleton of a 5,000-year-old man, buried on his left side with his head facing West. And that's enough for researcher Katerina Semradova to slap a few labels on him.
"We believe this is one of the earliest cases of what could be described as a transvestite or third-gender grave in the Czech Republic," she told reporters at a press conference Tuesday. According to Semradova and lead researcher Kamila Remisova, during that period men were traditionally buried lying on their right side, with the head pointing toward the west.
Clearly, something was amiss.
In addition, the "gay caveman" was buried with household jugs, rather than the weapons, hammers and flint knives typically seen in graves of men.
Hey, NmNuts... I found your ancestor too... He's in a prison for murdering civil-rights workers while being a member of the KKK...Now he's a butt-boy for someone, like Outdoor338, named "Leroy"...
You want to crank it back up? When you stop telling lies about me, I'll stop telling the truth about about you. But frankly, I'm kind of tired of dealing with an extremist, fanatic, faux-patriotic, phony flag-waving, impotent little bigot. You're going to put up with it a lot longer than you think, you insignificant pusillanimous white-trash zealot.
And now there is news that Ghandi was gay, not that it matters, but I do think sometimes scholars throw out stuff to draw attention to their work. Like one author declared that Lincoln was homosexual.
Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions, just trade-offs.
SS109 wrote: And now there is news that Ghandi was gay, not that it matters, but I do think sometimes scholars throw out stuff to draw attention to their work. Like one author declared that Lincoln was homosexual.
