Incisor wear. Lovell & Palichuk, Bioarchaeology of Marginalized People, 2019
Posted on 04/29/2019 9:18:18 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
...the teeth of an Egyptian woman who lived over 4,000 years ago show that the lives of women back then may have been more varied than some records suggest.
Two patterns of wear on 16 of her 24 teeth are inconsistent with eating, which means she was using her teeth for something else; further analysis suggests she was a craftswoman...
"Based on tomb paintings and recovered texts, scholars assert that there were only seven professions open to women throughout ancient Egyptian culture history," they wrote in a new paper.
"[Those are] as priestesses in temples dedicated to goddesses (for high status and well-connected women); as singers, musicians, and dancers (for women with skills and talent); as mourners; as weavers of cloth in the workshops of the aristocracy; and as midwives."
The remains, originally excavated in the 1970s, are from a necropolis in Mendes, which was once the capital of Ancient Egypt. The woman lived around 2181-2055 BCE, and died after the age of 50.
Apparently she was well respected, too, compared to other remains dating from the same era. She was placed in a wooden coffin lined with reeds, with grave goods that contained alabaster vessels, a bronze mirror, cosmetics and gold leaf.
And, of the roughly 1,070 total teeth from the necropolis site that survived the millennia and excavation of their 92 skeletons, only hers showed these unusual wear patterns.
(Excerpt) Read more at sciencealert.com ...
Painting radium glow in the dark numbers of clocks?
Opening beer bottles?
Bet she was a seamstress. The wear came from biting off threads when finishing a seam.
Maybe she used her teeth to trim the linen wrappings for mummies. :^)
“The oldest profession in the world (or the world’s oldest profession) is a phrase that...refers to prostitution.”
Head nurse?
Bronx bartender bark eater
"I think you read the sign wrong, it sez 'Clocks Fixed'."
"I read it right, I want *** ** *** *** ***** *** * **** ** ****."
Dear god I hope this articles doesn’t have something to do with chrome trailer hitches.
;^)
Ripping papyrus apart.
What type of crafts was she doing?
Basically, they don’t know.
It’s all just speculation, as is usual for *anthropologists.
And people complain about meteorologists getting paid for being wrong. Hey, at least they are trying to provide a usable service based on actual data collected.
Painting radium glow in the dark numbers of clocks?
>><<
I have a friend living in Ottawa who tells me there
is still radiation to be found.
Waiting for the joke double entendre here...
‘“scholars assert that there were only seven professions open to women throughout ancient Egyptian culture history,” they wrote in a new paper. [Those are] as priestesses...singers, musicians, and dancers... mourners... weavers... midwives’
Not prostitution? Did only whites do that?
Could they check the Bible even once? - Ezekiel 23:8 (“She did not forsake her harlotries from the time in Egypt; for in her youth men had lain with her, and they handled her virgin bosom and poured out their lust on her”.)
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