'Outed' By Archaeology: 5000-Year-Old 'Gay' Caveman Found
Contents:
- 'GAY CAVEMAN' STORY OVERBLOWN, ARCHAEOLOGISTS SAY
- CAVEMEN WERE GAY-FRIENDLY EMPLOYG HOMOSEXUALS AS THE FIRST NANNI
- THE OLST KNOWN GAY MAN?
- WHAT THE "GAY CAVEMAN" STORY DON'T TELL US ABOUT SEXUAL VARIABILY
- THE ALLURE OF GAY CAVEMEN
- CAVE-MYTH BTERS: WAS THERE REALLY A ‘GAY CAVEMAN’ AFTER ALL?
- GAY CAVEMAN FOUND
- 'GAY CAVEMAN' FOUND BY ARCHAEOLOGISTS NEAR PRAGUE
- 'GAY CAVEMAN' STORY OVERBLOWN, ARCHAEOLOGISTS SAY
'GAY CAVEMAN' STORY OVERBLOWN, ARCHAEOLOGISTS SAY
Archaeologists have unearthed the 5,000-year-old remas of what they believe may have been the world's olst known gay veman. * were cavemen gay *
"Far more likely is that he was a man wh a different sexual orientatn, homosexual or transsexual, " she add. "But this later disvery was neher of those, leadg to believe the man was probably homosexual or transsexual, " Semeradova said. 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.
CAVEMEN WERE GAY-FRIENDLY EMPLOYG HOMOSEXUALS AS THE FIRST NANNI
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. * were cavemen gay *
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. 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 OLST KNOWN GAY MAN?
Archaelogists have unvered what they believe to be the remas of the first-known gay, or transgenr, prehistoric man. * were cavemen gay *
Not only is "gay" an oversimplifitn, "veman" is flat-out accurate, said John Hawks, a paleoanthropologist at the Universy of Wisns, Madison.
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WHAT THE "GAY CAVEMAN" STORY DON'T TELL US ABOUT SEXUAL VARIABILY
"Gay veman"? Not this time, but there uld be... * were cavemen gay *
In hunter gatherers' culture homosexuals were wily accepted as extra help to support fai, acrdg to a study published the journal Human NatureCanadian rearchers at Centre for Addictn and Mental Health Toronto and the Universy of Lethbridge examed 46 ancient transgenred societi ( which homosexual men took transgenr role) and 146 non-transgenred societi ( which gay men took the typil male genr role siar to that of femal a society) societi were pared on the basis of the factors – populatn size, soc-polil systems, relig beliefs and patterns of rearchers found that transgenred male androphilia (male sexual attractn to adult mal) is an anctral phenomenon and was accepted by many muni.
THE ALLURE OF GAY CAVEMEN
The alleged "gay veman" that archaeologists recently disvered may not be que what seems, say other rearchers. (via LiveScience) 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 disv... * were cavemen gay *
"Among transgenred societi, negative societal attus toward homosexualy were unlikely. Societi which accepted homosexualy were those wh bilateral scent system of fay leage.
April 7, 2011 -- Archaeologists the Czech Republic have unearthed the grave of what may be the remas of the olst known homosexual or transgenr prehistoric body dat to the Copper age -- or 2900 to 2500 years ago -- and was buried a manner that was typilly rerved for male skeleton was found on s si, facg east, and was surround by domtic jugs, objects prevly seen only female grav.
Homosexualy, as Wterners thk of today, wh a lot of add societal baggage that wouldn't ronate at all wh prehistoric man, Arnold said.
CAVE-MYTH BTERS: WAS THERE REALLY A ‘GAY CAVEMAN’ AFTER ALL?
* were cavemen gay *
"Homosexualy is found a great many other speci -- om ducks to chimps -- as well as many cultur where people are allowed to exprs .
GAY CAVEMAN FOUND
In some societi, is even celebrated, such as the Navajo where lbians are believed to have a special nnectn to the spirual world, " Helen Fisher, a blogil anthropologist at Rutgers Universy, wrote an email to "So, " Fisher ntued, "there is every reason to thk that some of our anctors were gay. 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.
'GAY CAVEMAN' FOUND BY ARCHAEOLOGISTS NEAR PRAGUE
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. 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' STORY OVERBLOWN, ARCHAEOLOGISTS SAY
- 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.