The axe & stirrups from the female Viking warrior burial (grave Bj 581) at Birka, Sweden: http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/bild.asp?uid=331954 … & http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/fid.asp?fid=561205 …pic.twitter.com/UF9AaUp3mo
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> are not common in the inhumation burials at Birka (e.g., 2 out of 49 confirmed males showed signs of sharp force trauma)' (p.6)...
Well not all of the males had weapon wounds no, but none of the females did, and Birka was also an international site.
My point was simply that I don't think a lack of injuries is a game-changer :) What I would like to have seen in paper is some discussion >
> of evidence re: muscle development etc (iirc, Harke discusses this when arguing for symbolic weapons burials in Anglo-Saxon England)...
I agree. One Sarmato-Alanic woman who we know was a front-line lancer from the Pontic Sphere had distended bones.
Interesting! Yes, def could have been usefully discussed.
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