[WXRGina]

They were Democrats? Who knew? :-)

[cripplecreek]

They also appear to be completely mythical.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

"But they had guns so we had to burn them!"

[MUDDOG]

Modern archaeology vindicates Herodotus.

[PapaBear3625]

The early horses were rather small, and not strong enough for a large man to ride them. That's why you see pairs of them pulling chariots instead of being ridden in ancient pictures.

Women were light enough to ride the horses of the day without unduly burdening them. With bows, they could be cavalry archers.

[Tijeras_Slim]

she explains what Johnny Depp has in common with Amazons

The inability to grow a really good mustache?

[Dr. Ursus]

I hope they don’t find a plate with a picture of Lena Dunham on it!

[Politicalkiddo]

“They mutilated or killed their boy children!”

So today’s FemiNazis are just weak Amazonian women?

[Wyrd bið ful aræd]

"But they were long thought to be just travelers' tales or products of the Greek storytelling imagination. A lot of scholars still argue that. But archaeology has now proven without a doubt that there really were women fitting the description that the Greeks gave us of Amazons and warrior women...."

NG says that archaeology has proven without a doubt! Well, there you go, that settles it. Just like global warming.

[Snickering Hound]

Well, not exactly...

[Sherman Logan]

The great equalizer for those peoples was the domestication of horses and the invention of horse riding, followed by the perfection of the Scythian bow, which is smaller and very powerful. If you think about it, a woman on a horse with a bow, trained since childhood, can be just as fast and as deadly as a boy or man.

This is, of course, why all nomadic horse riding tribes developed women warriors.

The Scythian bow was indeed small and very powerful. But it required immense upper body strength, probably more than a bow used from the ground. And of course most women simply don't have this stremgth.

[marktwain]

Read the article. She is not talking about the historical references in Greek mythology at all.

No tribes of warrior women. Just that among the Scythians, maybe one third as many women as men fought in warfare.

Even that number may be suspect, given the authors obvious desire that the Amazons be real.

[njslim]

PMS Feminist Brigade......??????

[NorthMountain]

Modern (mostly male) scholars continued the confabulations.

Those damned horrible "males" ... always with the confabulations.

[Bratch]