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Stone Age woman was buried like a man, revealing flexible gender roles 7,000 years ago in Hungary
(www.livescience.com)
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This was particularly interesting:
One older adult female burial was particularly unusual. Hers was the only female skeleton the researchers found buried with polished stone tools, and her toes revealed a kneeling activity pattern more like that of the males in the cemetery. According to the researchers, this burial suggests that "females may have assumed roles traditionally associated with males" in the society and that gender roles "were fluid and shaped by multiple intersecting factors."