Women were warriors...and we can't believe it

[QuentinSummers]

Haven't seen this shared in here and I think some will find it interesting (like titania)
Viking warrior burial unearthed many years ago, has now been proven to be female by a wide variety of scientific techniques. However some are still questioning if this can be true. Interesting illustration of how our cultural assumptions of gender roles colour science.
www.theguardian.com/science/2017/sep/15/how-the-female-viking-warrior-was-written-out-of-history?CMP=share_btn_fb

I've been enjoying the lively debates on Twitter

Oh haven't seen those! Off to have a look

''She’s probably not a warrior if she doesn’t have injuries!”

This is a nice take;
We Don’t Have Time for Your Gender Roles, and Neither Do the Vikings
Apparently the lack of dolls and the abundance of swords means male?
metiza.com/voices/gender/viking-warrior/

ha! I argued this on the make up thread - that the reason I wore eye liner was because the Vikings wore it to make themselves look more fearsome in battle

How ironic that the Vikings were more egalitarian than Twitter users...

If i read the articles on this right, the initial discoveries were men's and the person who proved she was a woman was a woman. Which sort of proves why we need sex-quotas or encouragement for women in STEM, doesn't it? Because it turns out some men are sexist. WHO KNEW?

WHO KNEW?

We did, but it doesn't count until a man says it.

No female warriors? Wow it's almost as if Brienne of Tarth never existed . Seriously though, for nearly a hundred years this discovery was unequivocally a warrior according to archaeologists but now it's also unequivocally a woman suddenly they decide it might not be a warrior after all. Okaaaay.

As long as they reclassify every single male skeleton as 'not a warrior'. But they won't. For some reason.

One expert expressing doubts is a woman, Professor Judith Jesch of Nottingham University norseandviking.blogspot.co.uk/ The evidence linking the analysed bones to the grave is flimsy, the bones were excavated in the 19th century.

A previous paper on the gravesite states.

During the present analysis, it became clear that the osseous material and the contextual information given on the box or bag did not always match the data... there are bags of bones tagged with grave numbers that do not exist elsewhere. In other cases, there are unburnt bones in bags from graves documented and registered according to [archaeologist Erik] Arbman as "cremations" and bags which include the bones of several individuals while being documented as the grave of one person.

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