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“Both came back as female as well, so that essentially confirms that the skeleton was female, and this was probably a female metalworker, and specifically a gold worker, who had some kind of special status within their community in order to be not only afforded a burial underneath one of these round barrows, but also to be buried with this huge, unique diversity of grave goods as well,” Booth said.

“This subverts the idea that women or females in these societies couldn’t be powerful in their own right and special in their own right,” he added.

Bronze Age has gone woke, smh.

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[-] OffSeasonPrincess@hexbear.net 14 points 17 hours ago

Ppl always pull out the "dont ✨️impose✨️ modern social norms/ideas on them" shit too, when

a) ppl who wed today call trans provably have existed for 1000s of years in many, many cultures and just logically have existed in every single society that had a concept of gender ever

b) "transness is a modern/western perversion" is just an extremely transphobic trope, that a fuckload of ppl even in "progressive" history/anthropology spaces still just accept without question

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