This is a good critique of the Viking female warrior burial news making the rounds. I recommend a read of this, puts things into perspectivehttps://twitter.com/admiralhip/status/907954323530842112 …
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
Yeah I have many questions. So many questions. And a more interesting one is why someone would be buried w those grave goods.
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Replying to @NeolithicSheep @AdmiralHip
Especially if there's no osteological markers of injury or heavy physical exercise attributable to weapon & shield.
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Replying to @NeolithicSheep
What is interesting is that there is evidence of men buried with weapons as well who were not warriors. Evidently weapon burial can have...
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @NeolithicSheep
...a variety of meanings that often are not considered.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @NeolithicSheep
And the osteo report seems inconclusive for sex anyways. So who knows who this person is. Horse burials do have ritual context though.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
I mean. Who says she was a warrior in life even if a woman? Perhaps equipped to become a Valkyrie after death.
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Replying to @NeolithicSheep
That's the thing: burial goods do not necessarily reflect activity in life. They can, but don't have to. Semiotics of grave goods is complex
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
Shocking to think that humans have had complex spiritual lives & ritual behaviors FOREVER
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Basically one of the foundations of my phd thesis right there.
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