Reminds me a little of the movie King Arthur... in any case, interesting article.
"may have been from the fabled "
Very hard, clear, forceful statement.
There have been women fighting in armies since the beginning of time. However interesting the find is, it's nothing surprising.
When our women fight they are usually covered in baby oil or whipped cream and we charge admission.
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The Amazons were considered very brave, daring, fearless and dignified fighters and reputed as skilled horsewomen. However, tales that they cut off one breast to make it easier to fire a bow and arrow are believed to be unfounded.
How can the first part..Brave, fearless,etc be held to be true?
and the last part...cutting off one breast, believed to be unfounded?
No one can know weather any of it is true. No one really knows.
Maybe they werent even Amazons..Maybe they were just the
Prostitutes of the male warrior. and were burnt up on the pire with the rest of his property?
Just Decendants of Nancy Pelosi.
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Trust me, you still don't mess with women from Carlisle.
(Ducking and running in case any Cumbrians spot this southerner dissing their women-folk.)
And now they sell books and DVDs on their own web site.
How can this be proved over them being celtic banshees?
There are other reasons that the women could be there. I am assuming they were buried identifiably as soldiers. It seems that large armies right up into the 19th century tended to include a few women passing as men. There are some famous owoman warriors from our own Revolution, a couple of whom had been along with their husbands and started helping with the cannons and such, and a couple who were not found out until killed or after the war was over. Amazons! is just the attention getter for the writer. There is NO confirmed set of women warriors from any time anywhere. Long ago such a culture could only include a tiny fraction of the women in a tribe because women's time was necessarily taken up with pregnancy and birth else the tribe would die out quickly. A woman had to have many children for 2 or 3 to attain adulthood. If you postulate a tribe with modern antibiotics then Amazons as a culture might be possible.
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