http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8433527/First-homosexual-caveman-found.html
I tried to read some others in English and even in French. They mostly say the same thing :
_male remains
_dating back to 2900-2500 BC (Copper Age)
_location : Prague, Czech Republic
_displayed in a position and with objects under female standards of that time period.
In other words, the man burried as if he was a woman.
Some elements make me SERIOUSLY doubt the plausibility of a gay caveman :
1) Why "caveman" when it dates back to the Copper Age? Didn't they come out of their caves already???
2) Haha. Is it me, or Kamila Remisova Vesinova is jumping a little too fast to conclusions when she declares
"Far more likely is that he was a man with a different sexual orientation, homosexual or transsexual"?
How could one declare one's sexual orientations just by looking at a grave's content? Is there a method to identify it that I am not aware of?
However, I can accept Katerina Semradova's statement that
"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"
3) Did they at least analyze the bones to make sure the remains were really those of a man?
Semradova adds that
"archeologists had uncovered an earlier case dating from the Mesolithic period where a female warrior was buried as a man. 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"
So based on her statements, "he" cannot be an important figure like a shaman or a doctor. But what prevents us from assuming there might have been other important functions that we are unaware of? Maybe those functions were related to those goods. Perhaps he was a craftsman who made those kind of goods.
And if we have found a female warrior buried as a man in the Mesolithic period, we admit that there are exceptions where there is a reversal of "role". So what can prevent us from assuming that this presumably "man" was an exception too? What prevents us from thinking he had female functions like domestic chores for instance?
This is impressive how such information was taken over from one website to another: newspapers, gay community forums, tabloids, etc. How weird it is that an article which dates back to almost 1 year did not pave the way to more articles giving more insights about this discovery! It sounds to me more like a tabloid news on which such star got married to that person, who is with who, who is again in rehab. That's flash news. It is ephemeral. It does not last. And it seems like it was meant to be sensational for that particular moment. Poor "caveman", may you rest in peace whether gay or not!
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