That's what archaeologist Kamila Remisova Vesinova claimed. Her team has found evidence of a male skeleton buried in a way normally reserved only for women of the Corded Ware culture in the Copper Age:
The skeleton was found in a Prague suburb in the Czech Republic with its head pointing eastwards and surrounded by domestic jugs, rituals only previously seen in female graves.
"From history and ethnology, we know that people from this period took funeral rites very seriously so it is highly unlikely that this positioning was a mistake," said lead archaeologist Kamila Remisova Vesinova.
"Far more likely is that he was a man with a different sexual orientation, homosexual or transsexual," she added.
Seems a lot less far-fetched to me. I guess that would achieve less media attention though.
What nonsense.
We "know" that people of the current time period take bombing building very seriously, so it's highly unlikely that any buildings that were blown up in this time were caused by people.
They find ONE anomaly and they're making up all these fantasies. Someone must be looking for a new dissertation topic.
Your theory is the far-fetched one. Why wouldn't there be homosexuality with our early ancestors?
Why this news is shocking or surprising to some people mainly testifies to their ignorance and/or close mindedness.
Nonsense? You're not proving it with that comment which itself hardly makes any sense. And that analogy is absurd.
Not to mention that apply contemporary terms like homosexual or transsexual to previous periods is insensitive to the culture of origin.
HURF DURF INSANE TROLL LOGIC.
Go shout at archaeologist Katerina Semradova.
Or were you talking about yourself?
I was drinking when i read your comment...thanks a lot...i had to hurry up and clean the liquid out my keyboard...too funny
I never said I doubted the existence of homosexuality in our ancestors.
I never anything about it being shocking or surprising either.
Please make up more bullshit to imply that I am ignorant/close-minded
Homosexuality IS an orientation. Being transgender/transexual is NOT, NOT, NOT a sexual orientation. There are both straight and gay transgendered people. How did this slip past? I guess you could say that maybe it's understandable for the moderator of a website to not catch it, but what kind of researcher would make such a mistake? It really makes you question the validity of the entire thing.
Thx for those comments.
See, that's how you explain things to other people...
Kinda naive to assign our own historic stereotypes to prehistoric people.
Burial rites change over time; maybe they were trying something out.
In previous comments I was addressing other things than whether or not the person was gay or not.
I didn't even give it much thought and will admit that I assumed the archeologist new what she was talking about. But as I said my previous comments were not about that. So go f**k yourself.