5000 years ago women in control of Burnt City [ women of Burnt City redux ]

IranMania (yes, that's what it says) ^ | Tuesday, August 12, 2008 | unattributed

[SunkenCiv]

Some paleo-anthropologists believe that mothers in the Burnt City had social and financial prominence, director of the team working at the Burnt City in Sistan-Baluchestan Province, southeastern Iran said recently.

Addressing the archaeology students at Zabol University, Seyed Mansour Seyed Sajjadi said that 5000 year-old insignias, made of river pebbles and believed to belong only to distinguished inhabitants of the city, were found in the graves of some female citizens...

In December 2006, archaeologists discovered the world's earliest artificial eyeball in the city's necropolis, thought to have been worn by a female resident of the Burnt City... Microscopic research has revealed that the eye socket of the female remains bear clear imprints of the golden thread, suggesting that the woman must have worn the eyeball during her lifetime. With her shining golden eye she must have been a striking figure, perhaps a soothsayer or an oracle. The woman with the artificial eye was 1.82 m tall (6 feet), much taller than the average women of her time. She was aged between 25 and 30 and had dark, exotic skin. Her Africanoid cranial structure suggests her origins were the Arabian Peninsula...

Covering an area of 151 hectares, the city was built around 3200 BC and abandoned over a millennium later in 2100 BC.

The city experienced four stages of civilization and was burnt down three times. It took its eventual named because it was never rebuilt after the last fire.

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[Monkey Face]

Burning a city? Would that be like burning a house instead of keeping it clean?

[SunkenCiv]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1309803/posts?page=16#16

Oh well... looks like this “Iran Mania” story was just a regurgitation, and published for the same “prop up the regime” political reasons:

5,000 Years Ago, Women Held Power In Burnt City, Iran
Iranian WS | 12-23-2004
Posted on 12/24/2004 11:47:31 AM PST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1308060/posts

[SunkenCiv]

Sounds like a plan, regardless.

[FReepaholic]

...5000 year-old insignias, made of river pebbles and believed to belong only to distinguished inhabitants of the city, were found in the graves of some female citizens....

What if they were "Scarlet Letters"?

[wildbill]

When this woman wanted to bargain with a male, she’d offer, “I’ll keep an eye out for you.”