Two words: Sexual dimorphism.
It seems much more likely that a heart-broken father or lover buried those things with her than that she successfully engaged in hand to hand combat with men.
It’s much more likely that she died defending the settlement from a night-time raiding party. When the festivities started, everyone pitched in.
Actually, that people were apparently a Scythian people so she may have been the user.
The Scythians, one should remember, were the same bunch that, according to Herodotus, were seen as fit companions by refugee “Amazons” after their loss at the battle of Thermodon.
The people that came from the resulting intermarriage were the Sauromatae, steppe nomads who supposedly would not let a girl wed till she’d killed a man in battle.
Now, Herodotus’ claims not downplayed, had there been the Amazons and had they subsequently intermarried with Scythians it might indicate that the latter already had to have had a more equal view of women before said intermarriage, making it more palatable to the Amazons.
All conjecture, of course, but it still remains true that other Scythian groups besides the one in question have been found to have such warrior-women burials.
If this is the same burial reported elsewhere at FR that the female was in fact a male, it is more likely that the young male lover/war companion, protege of an older warrior was buried with his mentor. This relationship was common among the Greeks of that era.
If this is the same burial reported elsewhere at FR that the female was in fact a male, it is more likely that the young male lover/war companion, protege of an older warrior was buried with his mentor. This relationship was common among the Greeks of that era. It was particularly strong among the Spartans. See the section on Life in Ancient Sparta and Role of Women where the unusual aspects of sexual and marriage customs are quite different from other Greek cities and seem to me to resemble some of what has been suggested about the steppe cultures of that period.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparta