I find it hard to place this label on a skeleton just because of the mix in goods. Gay is having to do with sexual orientation, not dress code, or cultural role. It is really cool that we see a 'caveman' (as it is dubbed) with a male gender given a 'female' burial. It brings a bunch of questions to my mind about who this person was in life. How did they come to acquire the 'rights' to both male and female? Did they live life as a woman, or in between? Were they some how of a religious realm, like later shamans, who transversed both realms? Was this person in a particular job roll that required them to be gender inclusive? Was this person a hermaphrodite, than by birth, at least biologically, both. It is interesting to think about this as a possibility, but I am extremely hesitant to apply it as a firm label. The style of burial may have had nothing to do with gender orientation, it could have been to shame the person or confuse them in the afterworld.
The other issue I have is with terming this individual a "caveman." When I think of the term caveman I think of a Neanderthal or such, a pre-homosapian type. This individual was of our species and probably never lived in a cave at all.... Just because a body is old doesn't make it that removed from who we are today. Sure they didn't have all the fancy technologies or scientific understandings of the world, but they were still people with the same capacity for thought, understanding, communication and social skills as anyone of us.
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