Homosexual or Transgender Caveman?

by laverite 6 Replies latest social current

  • laverite
    laverite

    Has anyone seen the news report from the Telegraph on the 5,000 year old skeletal remains found in Prague? The male remains were buried as a female would have been, and this brings up the question that the remains represent someone who was either homosexual or transgender. Very interesting piece. Lots of news on this today.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8433527/First-homosexual-caveman-found.html

  • Knowsnothing
    Knowsnothing

    Sodom and Gomorrah existed @ about the same time, no?

  • metatron
    metatron

    Why this cave is just fabulous!

    metatron

  • truman
    truman

    Very interesting find.

    Hey, Laverite--you sent me a pm a few months back, which I never saw until recently. It was "hi from [location]". I am wondering if you yourself still hail from this area. If so, send me another pm, and I will try to answer more promptly.

  • Abaddon
    Abaddon

    Mmm.... shit journalism. But then that is often synonymous with 'Telegraph'.

    For a start, he or she wasn't a caveman; pre-Bronze age is not 'caveman'.

    For a second, gender assignment of skeletal remains is not a precise art; it is just as possible the remains have been misassigned a gender as it is they were given a non-typical burial for their gender.

    For a third, they could be transgender.

    Of course, they might be right, it's not like Oscar Wilde invented being gay, is it?

    All this brilliant analysis is not mine sadly; see here; http://johnhawks.net/weblog/topics/meta/communication/gay-caveman-prague-2011.html

  • Broken Promises
    Broken Promises

    Can't they tell by the pelvis if it's male or female?

  • skeeter1
    skeeter1

    I feel a little sad to see this person. Fetal position and hugging him (or her) self.

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