Grave of "gay caveman" found

[Loddfafner]

A couple of notes:
1. Cross-gender behavior and homosexuality do not necessarily coincide. The extent that they do is one of those historical and cultural variables.
2. There is nothing new about finding a mismatch between the sex of a skeleton and the gendering of the objects buried with it. Maybe this is older or from a different culture than others found, such as some Viking-age burials in Birka.

[Treffie]

He was obviously an early form of metrosexual.

[Aramis]

A dildo in his burial ground would have been the ultimate proof. But so far is his homosexuality nothing but a vague assumptions.

[Himera]

"Cave fagg" ..I haven't heard something like this for a long time...

[Max]

The Czechs must be really proud

[Adalwolf]

It would be hard to believe that they would show this much respect for an effeminate fag.

[Pallantides]

such as some Viking-age burials in Birka.

Swedish Vikings


...well here in Norway there have been found old runes describing homosexual acts.

[Troll's Puzzle]

They found he was buried with several Diana Ross vinyls, and a couple of pirate romance books in proto-greek written by a guy called 'Fabiophanes'. I would say that's conclusive proof as to his ancientness and sexual orientation.

[Allenson]

What the fuck has this to do with a "caveman"? Copper Age!

LOL, I was thinking the exact same thing. I don't exactly think of Corded Ware culture as 'caveman' Whatever the hell that is in the first place.

Writing a properly researched article?

[Agrippa]

Unlikely, since afaIk the association of females being somehow inferior was imported from the Middle East much after this person had died.

What's inferiour and how you define it is open to debate for many ages, but fact is, usually, a male in a female's position was not really someone with a high status, unless it was a very special, spiritual or whatever, person.

So regardless of whether females were seen as inferiors then or not, males AS FEMALES most likely were, unless there was a special situation.

Does anyone know what the significance of the burial positions between the sexes might mean, facing East for the women and West for the men?

No. But what's really interesting is, that the Bell Beakers adopted the same custom in Central Europe, but used the EXACT OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS!

The Cordeds expanded to the West, the Beakers tried it to the East!

So they were facing each others as competitors in a way one could say even...

And of course, the Indo-Europeans were strongly patriarchal, patrilocality was proven in Eulau. Looking at the racial change, it seems likely to me that often bands of young warriors took local and foreign females - would fit into the y vs. mtDNA distribution as well.

From some people we know they castrated or feminised slaves at times, who knows, probably he was one of those, or alternatively:

It would be hard to believe that they would show this much respect for an effeminate fag.

He was the chief's or priest's son, a privileged position, even as a fag