LEIDEN, THE NETHERLANDS—In line with a press release launched by the College of Leiden, a brand new evaluation of skeletal stays and grave items recovered from 7,000-year-old burials on the Elsloo grave discipline, a Neolithic cemetery within the southern Netherlands excavated within the Nineteen Sixties, means that male-female gender roles have been much less outlined than beforehand thought. Luc Amkreutz of the Nationwide Museum of Antiquities and Leiden College mentioned that arrowheads and stone axes, though historically attributed to males, have been ceaselessly present in ladies’s graves. Amkreutz and his colleagues additionally famous that the graves of the aged, particularly these of aged ladies, have been richly furnished with closely used items together with gadgets associated to looking, meals preparation, woodworking, and physique ornament. Lots of the lifeless in these burials had additionally been sprinkled with pink ochre, he added. To examine upended gender norms within the Viking Age, go to “Viking Roles.”
