The remains were discovered alongside a 2000-year-old sword and mirrorImage Source, Historic England
Posted on 07/29/2023 9:45:19 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
A decades-long mystery over whether an Iron Age warrior who lived on the Isles of Scilly was a man or woman has been solved.
Archaeologists had been baffled about the identity of the prehistoric skeleton since it was discovered by a farmer on the island of Bryher in 1999.
Researchers said new analysis of tooth enamel revealed the warrior was most likely a woman...
The body said the discovery of the sword and mirror is considered to be "highly unusual" as swords were normally found with men and mirrors with women in other burials of the same period.
The single site on Bryher, discovered in a stone-walled chamber in a potato field, contained both objects and the remains of just one person.
They were re-examined by scientists in the US using a new process that looks at tooth enamel. Previous attempts to identify the remains using DNA analysis had failed due to the disintegration of the bones.
Prof Glendon Parker, from the University of California at Davis, said the team extracted traces of proteins from tiny fragments of surviving tooth enamel.
"Tooth enamel is the hardest and most durable substance in the human body," he said.
"It contains a protein with links to either the X or Y chromosome, which means it can be used to determine sex. This is useful because this protein survives well compared to DNA."
Prof Parker said the analysis revealed a 96% probability that the remains belonged to a woman.
Let us not go to that island, it is a Scilly place.
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The remains were discovered alongside a 2000-year-old sword and mirrorImage Source, Historic England
Maybe it’s Handsome Smurf.
Let us not go to that island, it is a Scilly place.
Lipstick on tooth? Of course now, who knows?
> Researchers said new analysis of tooth enamel revealed the warrior was most likely a woman. <
I don’t think we’re allowed to talk that way anymore. Our woke masters tell us that being a “woman” is purely a state of mind, and has nothing to do with biology.
So maybe these researchers should issue a weepy apology and then find a way to rephrase their findings.
/s (of course)
Was it a biological woman, a trans woman, a woke woman?
Nobody knows what a “woman” is anymore, not even a SCOTUS judge!
THIS is what these godless, moronic libs have brought to planet earth.
They belong in a nut house, not society.
They are all into the “women can be warriors the same as men” mindset.
In Hollywood, that translates to the standard scenes of a 110 lb. woman kicking the butts of five muscular men with her hands and feet, all with guns, too.
Trans warrior?
‘THIS is what these godless, moronic libs have brought to planet earth.’
what does their being godless have to do with idiocy...? Moronic theists throughout history have been a dime a dozen...
‘In Hollywood, that translates to the standard scenes of a 110 lb. woman kicking the butts of five muscular men...’
...with one hand while applying makeup and fixing her hair with the other...
The article is trying desperately to convince us that there was a woman warrior. That will destroy the Patriarchy, I suppose. And if there was ONE woman warrior, so what? Proves what? The vast majority of warriors were men.
And what if they determine that a man was a gardener? Would that destroy the hunter-gatherer theory?
The good thing about the article is that it shows that sex can be determined long after death, contrary to what the gender-obsessed mob is saying.
“..what does their being godless have to do with idiocy...?”
Probably nothin, but it sure seems to go hand in hand with this bunch.
lol
The entire world has known what a woman was up until the last few years.
Geez, he/she was confused.
You’re right. They try to convince that anyone buried with a sword and was female was a warrior.
It’s a ruse. Warriors have tell tale evidence of heavy use of one arm and many injuries. I don’t recall a single one of these burials that was actually a woman.
Interesting dilemma; glad they solved it. There have always been fierce women.
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