New Find May Confirm That Amazons, Ancient Female Warriors, Existed

Greek Reporter ^ | March 26, 2024 | Matthew Norman

[nickcarraway]

They were part-time in the Amazon reserves.

[Steve Van Doorn]

What’s very exciting is that a lot of the bone evidence is also showing clear evidence of sustained time in the saddle. Women’s pelvises are basically opened up because they’re riding horses. [Their] bones are just shaped by their lifestyle.

I believe there was women dominated tribes as it is today. As there was 17 women born for every man at it peek after the younger dryas. lifestyle changes with the wind. A "womb-man" does not

[Chickensoup]

I thought you can’t tell gender from bones.

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Only if you don’t want to!

[PIF]

That’s more or less what the British did against the French.
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and what the Chinese did 25,000 years before them - recorded battles go back to the time of the Yellow Emperor, ~2697–2597 BC.

Later the Manchu bow - composite reflex bow - had a pull up to 200 lbs. Most were 133lbs.

But composite reflex bows were in use long before that.

By comparison, the English Long Bow draw strength was 150-180 lbs.

[moovova]

I thought Amazon wimyns had half-top surgery performed to be better archers.

[OldHarbor]

The women always used to cover their faces to fight,’ which is exactly what the ancient sources said, so that people didn’t know whether they were women or men.”

In Korean or Chinese dramas , the females just dress as males and no one is ever the wiser !

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[DiogenesLamp]

Excavations of bronze age burial sites have uncovered battle-scarred female archers, leading some archaeologists to posit that Amazons, the famed female warriors of Greek legend...

Did you assume their gender?

How do you know you didn't misgender them?

[1Old Pro]

Oh they exist, some play women’s basketball.

[nickcarraway]

Wasn’t Barbara Streisand in one of them?