Posted on 08/04/2004 8:51:53 PM PDT by blam
Did Amazon archers really cut off one of their breasts to facilitate the use of their weapons? In the spirit of "everything you know is wrong", I'd really like to know if this was ever documented.
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Don't know. The only thing I know about Amazons it that the river in South America was named such because the Spanish claimed to have seen women warriors lining the banks when they toured the area.
Don't know either but clearly that long ago strong women took charge when the men were dead from wars and disease.Doesn't sound like pampered wenches we see now but the great walk amongst us.
The women who stay at home and raise the kids/clean up the dog's mess/work to bring money into the family while Dad's away serving his country have always held my awe and respect.
The show was fascinating. In a kurgan in the Russian steppes, the archaeologists found a 2500 yr old burial of a woman likely mortally injured in combat. Her apparel matched exactly Herodotus' description of the Amazons, and she was buried with spiritual items and weapons.
Then they drove deep into the backwaters of the Russian steppes and found a modern nomad child with blond hair and very European features whose DNA matched closely the DNA extracted from the Amazon burial. And the villagers still used recurve bows and the tall coned hats of the Amazons.
This is just further support that proto-Europeans penetrated the Steppes and shaped the cultures there. In the larger context of the rise of civilization, it certainly seems to support that as the agricultural societies arose, entire clans of nomadic European people fled to the peripheries of the civilized world. We can only speculate as to their motives in doing so.
It was indeed, very interesting. The patterns on the clothes and other cloth items matched closely as well. The nomads of remote Mongolia appear to have mingled with and descended from these legendary Amazons.
Plus, that little blond girl was adorable.
She really seemed to be sopping it all up. She must have always known she was special, and then all the scientists descend on her village in the middle of nowhere and tell her she is descended from legendary warrior princesses!
I hope that village tells the tale for many years.
I imagine it was a very exciting thing for them. What satisfaction that Doctor must have felt after her 20 years of research.
The girl was wonderful, and very skilled on her horse. The western clothes (hair scrunchies) cracked me up!
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Well she was an oddity and don't think she didn't feel it for you could see it in her eyes.It was a very interesting program.She was closely featured yet and retained the DNA required for this to go through.I'm not really in the position so say history repeats or remove emphasis from the original post.........but something will be said about a cagillion horny chinese chinese soldiers and women in America who don't know what to do with themselves.All they have to do is get rid of the Men.
The History (Book IV) Melpomenethe discussion of the Amazons is found in "Melpomene".
by Herodotus
440 B.C.
Translated by George Rawlinson
It's been a long time since I've been as excited as I was last night watching that show. Naturally, I thought of you and the red headed mummies. :0)
I really liked that female archaeologist, too. She was great. A real people person. I think that's one secret of her success.
I hate that I missed it. I might add that some of the 4,000 year old mummies in and around the Tarim Basin had the tall cone shaped (felt) hats. One of the mummies was named Woman With Ten Hats. Some of the hats were strange in that they had a double peak in the cone.
You would have LOVED it, I guarantee it. I wish I could see it again. That is one of the very few that I could watch over and over again. There's too much info to absorb in just one viewing.
What made it the most interesting to me is the fact that I believe there is definitely a link to "your" mummies. I wish they'd do comparison DNA with them, too. That explanation would make the most sense of what Caucasion people were doing up in that part of the world.
That little blond headed girl was so cute. Her impish grin was precious. And at the end when they showed her flying through the wind on that horse, you could see the regal pride in her. I wish somebody would see to her education.
BTW, I thought of YOU, too, as I was watching that program. Maybe we should do a DNA on you, along with the rest of them. :0)
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