Sunday, April 17, 2011

First Gay Caveman

Apparently  archeologist found the “First Gay Caveman.” The skeleton remains of a male were found in Prague suburb in the Czech Republic dating the remains around 2900-2500BC. They figure he is gay or homosexual by the position of the body.

“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," said lead archaeologist Kamila Remisova Vesinova.
"Far more likely is that he was a man with a different sexual orientation, homosexual or transsexual," she added. According to Corded Ware culture which began in the late Stone Age and culminated in the Bronze Age, men were traditionally buried lying on their right side with their heads pointing towards the west, and women on their left sides with their heads pointing towards the east. Both sexes would be put into a crouching position. The men would be buried alongside weapons, hammers and flint knives as well as several portions of food and drink to accompany them to the other side. Women would be buried with necklaces made from teeth, pets, and copper earrings, as well as jugs and an egg-shaped pot placed near the feet”
-According to the Teleograph.com and many other online magazines and reporters.
This ancient man was buried in the typical fashion a female would be buried. There isn’t much to explain why he was buried this way so the skeptical answer would be to claim him gay or a transvestite.

This opens a lot of questions for me like…
*Is this an April fool’s joke?
*Maybe he liked dressing up in his wife's clothes and that's how they want to remember him.
*What if he was bisexual?
*What if he was an outcast in his culture and so they buried him that way.

That last question makes my mind trail off… With this new discovery, Does that mean homosexuals have been always looked down upon or at some point in history someone thought it to be wrong. I don’t think we’ll ever really know what they were thinking. Or anyone past recorded time was thinking.

All I know is I'll never look at a Geico caveman commercial the same again.

So I leave this in the hands of you, reader. What are some questions you can generate and what do you think?



Side note: One blogger commented: "How do you know it's not a woman's skeleton....Easy! It's mouth was closed."

2 comments:

  1. I actually heard about this story a few days ago on the radio. It was interesting to hear about. And the side note is pretty funny.

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  2. Its weird how people can figure these things out..if there is any truth behind it

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