Posted on 11/15/2007 5:21:32 PM PST by blam
Women warriors may have battled in ancient Cambodia
Thu Nov 15, 2:36 AM ET
AFP/HO/File Photo: This handout picture, taken early this year, shows a female skelton buried with metal bracelets...
TOKYO (AFP) - Archaeologists have found female skeletons buried with metal swords in Cambodian ruins, indicating there may have been a civilisation with female warriors, the mission head said Thursday.
The team dug up 35 human skeletons at five locations in Phum Snay in northwestern Cambodia in research earlier this year, said Japanese researcher Yoshinori Yasuda, who led the team.
"Five of them were perfect skeletons and we have confirmed all of them were those of females," Yasuda told AFP. The skeletons were believed to date back to the first to fifth century AD.
The five were found buried together with steel or bronze swords, and helmet-shaped objects, said Yasuda, who is from the government-backed International Research Center for Japanese Studies.
"It is very rare that swords are found with women. This suggests it was a realm where female warriors were playing an active role," he said.
"Women traditionally played the central role in the rice-farming and fishing societies," he said. "It's originally a European concept that women are weak and therefore should be protected."
"The five skeletons were well preserved because they had been buried in important spots at the tombs," he said.
It was the first time that large-scale research was conducted on the Phum Snay relics, which were found in 1999.
It is believed there was a civilisation inhabited with several thousand rice-farming people between the first to fifth century.
GGG Ping.
cool
I surrender.
“It’s originally a European concept that women are weak and therefore should be protected.”
So, is that right? So why did the Chinese bind the feet of little girls? Where are the Chinese women burials? How about Mongolian women burials? Women samurai?
Silly journalist, just can’t help themselves, have to trash western culture, it’s part of the agenda.
Weak? I’ll put the women battling on Black Friday to get the best shoes against any army!
the agenda is to make the exception no matter how tiny and nearly nonexistent the rule
and many here play along.
most under 40 conservatives are just as PC on social hot button gender and race and religion issues as the left
this forum is full of them...
Interesting. Didn’t the Chinese back the Viet Cong?
History does seem to repeat itself.
If they had been successful wouldn't this civilization be here today?
Most large cities in Vietnam have a street named “Hai Ba Trung.” That translates to the “Trung” sisters.
In the second century A.D., the Trung sisters supposedly led an army against Chinese invaders. They are typically pictured with swords atop fighting elephants.
The Chinese won but the Trung sisters are worshipped in politically correct, Communist, Vietnam.
Note that I included “politically correct” and “Communist” in the same sentence — that was very intentional; that’s where the lefties will take the U.S. Her Thighness will drive the bus.
Just more proof that women need to be added to the US Selective Service system and sent into combat to fight.
Feminist Equality and Equal Rights and all such.
The cursory checks that I have done all indicated that the Trung sisters-led rebellion did manage to drive the Chinese out; but, the Chinese returned a few years later and defeated the Vietnamese.
Are there accounts that dismiss the reported accomplishments of the Trung sisters?
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