Four arrowheads were found in the burial.
Scientists have discovered in the north of France the burial of a woman with four arrowheads. It can tell about the role played by women in Neolithic or Early Stone Age societies, according to Live science.
Researchers have studied giant graves known as “long mounds” – large earthen mounds, often several tens of meters long, held by wooden fences that have rotted since construction. Scientists studied 19 burials and analyzed the DNA of 14 buried. Only one of them was buried in one burial.
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She was buried with “symbolic male” arrows. Scholars believe that she should be considered a “symbolic man”, so she was buried here.
“We think that these male artifacts should have taken her beyond biological gender identity. This means that the incarnation of the male sex in death was important for her to gain access to burial in these giant structures, “said study lead author Maite Rivollat of the University of Bordeaux. Orne to the Neolithic culture of Cherny. Several other Czernie cemeteries have been discovered hundreds of miles from here, in the Paris Basin area to the southeast, but Fleury-sur-Orne is the largest found in Normandy.
Despite the fact that in the two regions there are burials of the Cherni era, there were local differences in how they arranged the burial of people of high status. Thus, in “Parisian” burials, men and women were buried approximately equally. Burials in Fleury-sur-Orne were mostly male, so the discovery of a woman in one of the mounds surprised scientists.
At the same time, it is impossible to tell about the life of a woman. The data that scientists have now is not enough. However, in the future they want to conduct an isotopic analysis of the remains, which will find out about the diet of the woman, as well as the region in which she was born and lived.
, found in Jerusalem, showed that they were probably used as hand grenades. Previously, scientists believed that such containers stored in museums around the world were used for various purposes, including storage of beer, mercury, medicines and oils.
