Five thousand years
Transmissions
Published 04/21/2011
by Gwendolyn Ann Smith
http://www.ebar.com/columns/column.php?sec=transmissions&article=162In a suburb of what is now Prague, some five thousand years ago, a body was buried. Funeral rites were a very big deal at the time, with a great deal of symbolism attached to exactly how a body was positioned for burial, and what items would be interred with them.
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The new media jumped on this story, labeling this the body of a "gay caveman." Some of the better news sources went a step further declaring this to be a transgender person. Some called it the oldest of its kind, though Semrádová hastened to add that there were earlier examples of male Siberian shamans buried in a similar fashion, and one Mesolithic period female warrior buried in fashion befitting males of the time.
