First homosexual caveman found

[n2doc]

10:00PM BST 06 Apr 2011
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.

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

[MNBrewer]

1. Perhaps

Perhaps not. Regardless, it's an interesting and important find.

[Tesha]

2. Mel Brooks already had this covered in "History of the World, Part I".

He's always been ahead of his time.

Tesha

[JackintheGreen]

3. Boy did we chew this over yesterday

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=439&topic_id=834226&mesg_id=834226

[MNBrewer]

4. Perhaps it's best if this topic be given a fresh start in a new thread.

[Pab Sungenis]

6. Perhaps it's best if we let it die.

n/t

[MineralMan]

5. A very stupid title, indeed.

What they found was a grave that needs further study. Some moron wrote a stupid headline.

[WatsonT]

7. "New caveman skeleton discovered"

Meh.

"Uh, new GAY caveman skeleton discovered!"

Holy sh*t! This is amazing!

[Odin2005]

8. Since when were early Indo-European folks "cavemen"?

The Corded Ware culture was an early Indo-European cattle culture that gave rise to the Germanic, Slavic, and Baltic peoples, they weren't paleolithic hunter-gatherers. Idiot journalists.