Battle hardened Viking warrior was actually a woman
Posted On: Jul 9th, 2018 at 14:54
Sweden
After the interesting article I posted a couple of days ago regarding research carried out by Maritza Villavicencio into the ancient Peruvian elite and that women held much higher positions of power than we currently believe, here we have a similar situation in Sweden.
A body, once assumed to be a male warrior simply because of the burial goods accompanying it, has turned out to be a female. Once again we find that archaeologists have to rethink their preconceived ideas and also we have to rewrite history. It beggars belief that we are still in an age where gender stereotypes are occurring – women wielded far more power in ancient times than they did up until very recently. Like the Darwin model of evolution, still the mindset and thought processes that dominate archaeology and history are often stuck in Victorian times.
