Male-defaultism in #archaeology is bloody annoying.
Just because someone draws a #hunting scene in a #cave, doesn't mean it was a man doing so or depicting one.
Every #archer grave from the Bell Beaker Era MUST be #male because even when they find #female additions, that just means she is related to a great man or the male lost status (of course).
Archaeologist Randy Haas just assumed he found a male big game hunter in Peru in 2013. Except he didn't.
@mythologyandhistory I saw a painting once, of hunters surrounding a mammoth. There were both men and women holding spears. The writing said that the whole community got involved to bring down large animals. I have no idea where it was, or the artist or author.
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Maybe you know Birka grave Bj 581 (so called 'warrior's grave').
Even today some men can't accept the fact that the burried person was female. It just melts their little brains.
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