
Source: dailymail.co.uk
A 5,000-year-old skeleton was found in the Czech Republic pointing eastwards and surrounded by domestic jugs. According to the Daily Mail, men would normally be buried with weapons, hammers and flint knives
Maybe he fell asleep on the kitchen floor after a midnight fridge raid following a long night of binge drinking.
Then =boom!= burried in an avalanche.
Poor guy.
As an anthropologist, these claims are wildly inappropriate and biased. You cannot possibly apply social thoughts about being gay or transsexual in the day and age we live in now to an individual who lived 5,000 years ago. Ever noticed at museums how reconstructions of hominids always have women cooking or sitting around a fire and men holding spears or in the act of hunting? That’s a perfect example. Applying current (and supposed) gender roles to beings who lived thousands of years ago only perpetuates stereotypes. I could go on and on about how stupid these claims are.
There is just so much wrong with this I simply don’t know where to start.
I believe it.
The grave is fabulously neat and tidy,
the skeleton has perfect pose and posture,
and his arms are crossed in terse disapproval at whomever broke that magnificent pottery .
The Daily Mail hates gays, single parents and immigrants so this article is just one of their worst fears realised.
What if he was a Potter? If a woman was buried with swords that mean she was a lesbian?
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