First homosexual caveman found

[Amby 490]

Archaeologists have unearthed the 5,000-year-old remains of what they believe may have been the world's oldest known gay caveman.

The male body – said to date back to between 2900-2500BC – was discovered buried in a way normally reserved only for women of the Corded Ware culture in the Copper Age.

The skeleton was found in a Prague suburb in the Czech Republic with its head pointing eastwards and surrounded by domestic jugs, rituals only previously seen in female graves.

"From history and ethnology, we know that people from this period took funeral rites very seriously so it is highly unlikely that this positioning was a mistake," said lead archaeologist Kamila Remisova Vesinova.

"Far more likely is that he was a man with a different sexual orientation, homosexual or transsexual," she added.

According to Corded Ware culture which began in the late Stone Age and culminated in the Bronze Age, men were traditionally buried lying on their right side with their heads pointing towards the west, and women on their left sides with their heads pointing towards the east. Both sexes would be put into a crouching position.

The men would be buried alongside weapons, hammers and flint knives as well as several portions of food and drink to accompany them to the other side.

Women would be buried with necklaces made from teeth, pets, and copper earrings, as well as jugs and an egg-shaped pot placed near the feet.

"What we see here doesn't add up to traditional Corded Ware cultural norms. The grave in Terronska Street in Prague 6 is interred on its left side with the head facing the West. An oval, egg-shaped container usually associated with female burials was also found at the feet of the skeleton. None of the objects that usually accompany male burials  such as weapons, stone battle axes and flint knives  were found in the grave.

"We believe this is one of the earliest cases of what could be described as a 'transsexual' or 'third gender grave' in the Czech Republic," archaeologist Katerina Semradova told a press conference on Tuesday.

She said that archeologists had uncovered an earlier case dating from the Mesolithic period where a female warrior was buried as a man.

She added that Siberian shamans, or latter-day witch doctors, were also buried in this way but with richer funeral accessories to appropriate to their elevated position in society.

"But this later discovery was neither of those, leading us to believe the man was probably homosexual or transsexual," Semeradova said.

The Corded Ware culture takes its name from the frequent use of decorative cord impressions found its pots and covered much of North, Central and Eastern Europe.

It is also known as a single-grave and battleaxe culture due to separate burials and the Mena s habit of being buried with stone axes.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8433527/First-homosexual-caveman-found.html

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She added that Siberian shamans, or latter-day witch doctors, were also buried in this way but with richer funeral accessories to appropriate to their elevated position in society.

"But this later discovery was neither of those, leading us to believe the man was probably homosexual or transsexual," Semeradova said.

It isn't possible that there is maybe another element of this long-gone culture we are not aware of? To leap to homosexuality strikes me as a bit premature.

[Amby 490]

I just read another thing that says this was "overblown"

http://www.livescience.com/13620-gay-caveman-story-overblown.html

[Dan and Judy 614]

It isn't possible that there is maybe another element of this long-gone culture we are not aware of? To leap to homosexuality strikes me as a bit premature.

check the knee bones for unusual signs of wear

[Ban Hammer 13,333]

The male body – said to date back to between 2900-2500BC – was discovered buried in a way normally reserved only for women of the Corded Ware culture in the Copper Age.

maybe this was the first liberal.

[Jenn! 918]

buttsex...so easy a caveman can do it?

[luckytxn 2,264]

Maybe the guys friends were after a night of heavy drinking to console themselves decided to play a joke.

[Dakine10 5,452]

Wow, kind of ironic if the first gay caveman turns out to be Bohemian.

[Zero Sum 305]

buttsex...so easy a caveman can do it?

Maybe some Neanderthal genes made their way over to the human lineage.

[thongd4me 69]

I see the possibility of a phD thesis becoming a TV movie....

"Honey, I'm home!"

-Do I have to clean up after your saber-toothed kitty all the time?

How many times have I told you to change the kitty litter?

Aren't you good for anything?

"Ask N'Gork in the cave next door."

-If that don't beat all!

{Theme music}

[Ban Hammer 13,333]

Maybe some Neanderthal genes made their way over to the human lineage.

maybe that's why there aren't any today, they legalized gay marriage

[Zero Sum 305]

maybe that's why there aren't any today, they legalized gay marriage