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Medieval Woman Stood Less Than 5 Feet Tall. She May Have Been Deadly Warrior, Study Says
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| Brendan Rascius
Posted on 06/06/2024 6:48:44 PM PDT by nickcarraway
While excavating a cemetery for medieval knights in Spain, archaeologists came across something unexpected: the remains of a woman. Pierced by sharp objects, her bones suggest she fought and died in battle, likely over 800 years ago.
The discovery prompted a flurry of questions about her role in the male-dominated society. Who was she? Why was she buried there? Did she fight alongside the knights?
By analyzing her skeleton, archaeologists shed light on her diet, lifestyle and status, allowing them to venture several hypotheses about her identity, according to a study published May 14 in the journal Scientific Reports.
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TOPICS: History; Military/Veterans
KEYWORDS: ancientautopsies; brendanrascius; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; medieval; middleages; warrior; woman
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To: nickcarraway
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posted on
06/06/2024 6:51:02 PM PDT
by
cport
(How can political capital be spent on a bunch of ingrates)
To: cport
The Warrior.
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posted on
06/06/2024 6:53:50 PM PDT
by
Chode
(there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. #FJB)
To: nickcarraway
Shooting at the walls of heartache... bang... bang.
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posted on
06/06/2024 6:56:15 PM PDT
by
LastDayz
(A blunt and brazen Texan. I will not be assimilated.)
To: nickcarraway
Anyone else like me totally done with this fictitious boss-girl warrior crap? These idiot bitches have watched too many Black Widow movies and have confused Hollywood with reality. I always tell these Xena Warrior Princess wannabes that everyone has a plan until they get punched in the nose. I follow up with the wisdom that a punch from a man is a whole other world from whatever slap-and-tickle fights they have been in, if any.
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posted on
06/06/2024 7:03:40 PM PDT
by
wildcard_redneck
(He who sacrifices freedom for security deserves neither.)
To: nickcarraway
If there an invasion, everyone is a soldier.
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posted on
06/06/2024 7:03:55 PM PDT
by
Dr. Sivana
(Stormy Daniels is a McGuffin)
To: nickcarraway
Having been “pierced by sharp objects” does not necessarily make her a “deadly warrior”, or even a combatant.
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To: nickcarraway
Pierced by sharp objects, her bones suggest she fought and died in battle, likely over 800 years ago. She was stabbed to death. Therefore she was a warrior.
Of perhaps someone has an agenda.
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posted on
06/06/2024 7:08:14 PM PDT
by
pepsi_junkie
("We want no Gestapo or Secret Police. F. B. I. is tending in that direction." - Harry S Truman)
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
06/06/2024 7:08:24 PM PDT
by
vpintheak
(Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
To: SunkenCiv
ping
female warrior maybe
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posted on
06/06/2024 7:10:34 PM PDT
by
SteveH
To: pepsi_junkie
Not just a warrior, a “deadly warrior” which makes her sound exception among warriors.
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posted on
06/06/2024 7:12:54 PM PDT
by
ansel12
((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
To: nickcarraway
Her skeleton identified her as female? Everybody in the 21st century knows that is archaic thinking.
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posted on
06/06/2024 7:19:54 PM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
To: ProtectOurFreedom
They found a tag with her pronouns?
To: wildcard_redneck
“Anyone else like me totally done with this fictitious boss-girl warrior crap? “
My God, I was done with it 30 or 40 years ago. CGI has made it 1,000 times worse. Now waif-like girls toss around 300 pound men like tissues on the wind. I’m so tired of suspending disbelief on that crap.
That’s why I’m mainly watching movies from the 30s to 1960 and old TV shows. I’m really enjoying “Death Valley Days” right now.
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posted on
06/06/2024 7:21:32 PM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
To: nickcarraway
She was probably murdered and put in the same cemeteries as the warriors to hide the crime. Or, she protested the killing of her warrior husband/lover, and killed as an example to others that might be thinking the same way as her.
A five-foot warrior woman is a ridiculous assumption.
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posted on
06/06/2024 7:24:41 PM PDT
by
adorno
(CCH)
To: nickcarraway
That's got to be it! Those mylar name tags last for millennia. Can't do battle without a pronoun tag. Why, those young Americans who landed on Utah, Omaha, Gold, Juno and Sword all had tags.
"All you They/Thems -- you're the first to go up those cliffs!"
"Yes, Sarge"
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posted on
06/06/2024 7:26:13 PM PDT
by
ProtectOurFreedom
(“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
To: Salamander
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posted on
06/06/2024 7:33:04 PM PDT
by
null and void
(“No matter how cynical you become, it’s never enough to keep up”. ~ Lily Tomlin)
To: Chode
The fact she was pierced like a pincushion doesn’t mean she was a warrior or in battle. If she was a warrior, it would imply she was less than formidable.
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posted on
06/06/2024 7:53:48 PM PDT
by
I-ambush
(From the brightest star comes the blackest hole. You had so much to offer, why didya offer your sou?)
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