Gosh I have so many issues with this. https://m.theepochtimes.com/researchers-test-1000-year-old-viking-generals-dna-prove-themselves-wrong_2832980.html … via @epochtimes
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I just can’t get over the burial with a game board meant they were familiar with battle tactics.
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Archaeologists are often too quick to assume a deeper meaning to grave goods which means that objects that were just that, objects, get ignored for what they were.
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Toys, games, trinkets, heirlooms...often they are given ritual or military context when in reality people liked things just as we do now.
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Children had toys, people played games. They enjoyed the mundane as much as us.
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There wasn’t some fundamental mental shift in humanity in the last two hundred years on our attitude to these things.
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We tend to have more leisure time now, but there was always leisure time of a sort.
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Festivals and holidays, celebrations, and so on.
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