Archeologists say they've made a unique discovery in the Czech Republic: 5,000-year-old remains of a human male who was buried in a way traditionally only reserved for females.
To them, this means they've unearthed the first-ever gay human remains.
"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," one of the archeologists told The Telegraph.
She added that by the way the body was positioned, and the objects found buried with him, this person lived either as a gay male or a transsexual female.
During that time men were typically buried facing west, with tools and weapons around them, whereas women were buried facing east, surrounded by pottery.
"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," they reportedly said during a press conference Tuesday.
The archeologists also noted that the only other find like theirs was an earlier dig that unearthed remains from the Mesolithic period, revealing a female warrior who had been buried as a man.
Link:
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/04/07/archeologists-unearth-first-ever-gay-caveman-skeleton/
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