Archaeologists Fd 'Gay Caveman' Near Prague: Remas Outed by Typil 'Female' Burial |

Contents:

• 'GAY CAVEMAN' STORY OVERBLOWN, ARCHAEOLOGISTS SAY
• 'GAY CAVEMAN' STORY OVERBLOWN, ARCHAEOLOGISTS SAY
• THE ALLURE OF GAY CAVEMEN
• THE ALLURE OF GAY CAVEMEN
• CAVE-MYTH BTERS: WAS THERE REALLY A ‘GAY CAVEMAN’ AFTER ALL?
• ARCHAEOLOGISTS FD ‘GAY CAVEMAN’ NEAR PRAGUE
• WHAT THE "GAY CAVEMAN" STORY DON'T TELL US ABOUT SEXUAL VARIABILY
• SCIENTISTS SPEAK OUT TO DISCRED 'GAY VEMAN' MEDIA REPORTS
• 'GAY CAVEMAN' FOUND BY ARCHAEOLOGISTS NEAR PRAGUE

'GAY CAVEMAN' STORY OVERBLOWN, ARCHAEOLOGISTS SAY

Archaeologists Prague say they've unvered a Stone-Age man buried a posn ually rerved for women — but media claims of a "gay veman" may be exaggerated, acrdg to some rearchers. Not gay, not a veman Vova and her lleagu told reporters that the man may have belonged to a "third genr. [ 5 Myths About Gay People Debunked] The skeleton has been tmpeted the media as belongg to a "homosexual veman, " but some archaeologists are skeptil.

'GAY CAVEMAN' STORY OVERBLOWN, ARCHAEOLOGISTS SAY

For one thg, the plexy of the third-genr ncept mak llg the skeleton "gay" an oversimplifitn, Krista Killgrove, an anthropologist at the Universy of North Carola, wrote her blog, Bone Girl. "If this burial reprents a transgenred dividual (as well uld), that don't necsarily mean the person had a 'different sexual orientatn ' and certaly don't mean that he would have nsired himself (or that his culture would have nsired him) 'homosexual, '" Killgrove wrote. "The realy of this is gog to be far more plited than, 'This dividual was gay, '" Dobson told LiveScience.

THE ALLURE OF GAY CAVEMEN

Not only is "gay" an oversimplifitn, "veman" is flat-out accurate, said John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the Universy of Wisns, Madison. Top 10 Weird Ways We Deal Wh the Dead 5 Myths About Gay People Debunked Top 10 Mysteri of the First Humans Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience Senr Wrer. "We found one very specific grave of a man lyg the posn of a woman, whout genr specific grave goods, neher jewelry or weapons, " lead archaeologist Kaa Remisova Vova of the Czech Archaeologil Society told Prs gay, not a vemanVova and her lleagu told reporters that the man may have belonged to a "third genr.

[5 Myths About Gay People Debunked]The skeleton has been tmpeted the media as belongg to a "homosexual veman, " but some archaeologists are skeptil. "If this burial reprents a transgenred dividual (as well uld), that don't necsarily mean the person had a 'different sexual orientatn' and certaly don't mean that he would have nsired himself (or that his culture would have nsired him) 'homosexual, '" Killgrove wrote. "The realy of this is gog to be far more plited than, 'This dividual was gay, '" Dobson told only is "gay" an oversimplifitn, "veman" is flat-out accurate, said John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the Universy of Wisns, Madison.

THE ALLURE OF GAY CAVEMEN

- EMJ & DD*___The Allure of Gay CavemenThird genrs, two spirs, and a media whout a clueby Eric Michael JohnsonIn 1993 the reputable German weekly Der Spiegelreported a mor that Otzi, the 5, 300-year-old ozen mummy disvered the Otztal Alps two years earlier, ntaed evince of the world's earlit known homosexual act. The orig of the mor, as Cecil Adams disvered, turns out to have been an April Fool's prank published the Atrian gay magaze Lambda Nachrichten. The problem lay not wh the scientists, who were scribg prelimary fdgs that previewed some tantalizg rults, but a media culture that emphasiz sensatnalism over accuracy and beg first over beg all acunts seems that the UK Telegraph had the dub honor of beg first this se, and so dog mted two wrongs jt as many words: "Gay Caveman.

Sendly, an alternative sexual orientatn do not make a person gay. " The genr rol that we've e to know as homosexual, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr were all reprented the societi, but ways that were culturally specific and likely to have been que unfaiar based on our fns.

Gay vemen, ed. However, spe the ial siari between the gay vemen sndals of 1991 and 2011 there is a very important difference. In ten untri (cludg where I s Canada, though not where I'm om the Uned Stat) gay marriage has the same legal regnn as straight marriage.

CAVE-MYTH BTERS: WAS THERE REALLY A ‘GAY CAVEMAN’ AFTER ALL?

The popular allure of the gay veman story is jt one ditn of this ongog change. The followg post origally appeared at Nron Culture hosted by Wired after the origal report last 1993 the reputable German weekly Der Spiegel prted a mor that Otzi, the 5, 300-year-old ozen mummy disvered the Otztal Alps two years earlier, ntaed evince of the world's earlit known homosexual act. The alleged “gay veman” that archaeologists recently disvered may not be que what seems, say other rearchers.

When archaeologists unvered the remas near Prague, the man was buried a posn ed to bury femal, which led the rearchers to say they had disvered an ancient homosexual man.

Many archaeologists speculate that the se has been oversimplified the craze surroundg the potential disvery of a “gay veman. ” Jt go to show that if NewsFeed really wanted to see a gay veman, we uld jt misterpret Fred and Barney’s bromance on The Fltston.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS FD ‘GAY CAVEMAN’ NEAR PRAGUE

Rearchers Dig Up 'Homosexual Or Transsexual' Caveman Near Prague: The Two-Way The body of the veman was buried an untradnal way — the way women were ually buried. Time reports the way the body was buried might mean the man was gay, bee the burial is nsistent wh the way women were buried.

"Far more likely is that he was a man wh a different sexual orientatn, homosexual or transsexual. Kaa Remisova Vova and her team of rearchers om the Czech Archeologil Society believe they have unearthed the remas of an early homosexual man. “Far more likely is that he was a man wh a different sexual orientatn, homosexual or transsexual.

WHAT THE "GAY CAVEMAN" STORY DON'T TELL US ABOUT SEXUAL VARIABILY

“This later disvery was neher [a warrr nor a wch doctor], leadg to believe the man was probably homosexual or transsexual. Grave of Stone Age ‘genr benr' exvated Prague: Archaeologists have unearthed a unique late Stone Age grave of a ‘transsexual or gay man' a suburb of the Czech pal.

The first sentence, quotg the exvators, spoke stead of a "third genr grave", equatg that more scholarly-- and th, apparently, ls terpretable-- term immediately to transsexual or gay. So, as many news articl said, we unanimoly me down on the "neher gay, nor a veman" si of the argument.

But 's a plited story that requir attentn to the differenc between "third genr"-- the term ed by the Czech archaeologists-- and gay, between both of the and transsexual, and terms like tersex. The whole language of gay and straight is based on the ia of rrponnce: that there are two natural blogil sex, and that normally, sex is unrtaken by a mixed pair. What most jolted me about the Gay Caveman story was the anachronistic e of "gay", which mt be seen as part of the morn European two sex/two genr rrponnce mol.

SCIENTISTS SPEAK OUT TO DISCRED 'GAY VEMAN' MEDIA REPORTS

Were there gay vemen? No, bee the Palaeolhic is not here and now, and "gay" is a word of the here and now.

We don't have to have a burial labeled "gay" to assume this.

'GAY CAVEMAN' FOUND BY ARCHAEOLOGISTS NEAR PRAGUE

STORY HIGHLIGHTSThey say the media has overblown fdgs om an archaeologil digCzech archaeologists have found a "transsexual" or "third genr grave"Sexual orientatn nnot be termed om a skeleton, paleoanthropologist saysThe term "veman" pertas to people who lived long before the unearthed remas (CNN) -- Reports that surfaced last week about the remas of a "gay veman" found the Czech Republic have prompted scientists to take on an unlikely foe -- an overhyped news media that may be overblowg the archaeologil fd. I uld be wrong, but I thk that to have a 'gay veman, ' you need a skeleton that is both gay and a veman. What followed were dozens of headl om ternatnal news anizatns clarg that a "gay veman" had been found.