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Rigid Gender Roles Are a Lie. Just Ask These 7,000-Year-Old Skeletons.
There’s a popular fantasy about the distant past. That men hunted, women gathered, and everyone stayed safely nestled within their proper gender roles. Unfortunately for people who believe that stuff, archaeological evidence keeps proving them wrong, even in graves. A new study in American Journal of Biological Anthropology examined 125 skeletons from two Neolithic burial sites in what is now Hungary. The research was led by Sébastien Villotte o…
A female skeleton buried with objects associated with men surprised a group of researchers in Hungary.The finding suggests that some communities of the European Neolithic showed some flexibility in gender roles about 7,000 years ago.The discovery arose after excavations in two ancient cemeteries in eastern Hungary, used between 5,300 and 4,650 BC.The remains belong to populations of the European Neolithic and provide clues about the social organ…
Neolithic Burials in Hungary Suggest Some Fluidity in Gender Roles - Archaeology Magazine
Skeleton of a man buried with a polished stone tool near the left shoulder, Csőszhalom, Hungary PARIS, FRANCE—An international team of researchers including Sébastien Villotte of the French National Center for Scientific Research examined 125 skeletons unearthed in two Neolithic cemeteries in eastern Hungary, according to a Live Science report. The burials were dated to between 5300 and 4650 B.C. Villotte and his colleagues recorded changes to t…
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