Viking skeletons DNA test proves historians wrong

[Lee Adama]

This upends a misogynistic view of ancient history:

Viking skeleton’s DNA test proves historians wrong

The remains of a powerful Viking — long thought to be a man — was in fact a real-life Xena Warrior Princess, a study released Friday reveals.

The lady war boss was buried in the mid-10th century along with deadly weapons and two horses, leading archaeologists and historians to assume she was a man, according to the findings published in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology.

Wrong.

“It’s actually a woman, somewhere over the age of 30 and fairly tall, too, measuring around [5 feet 6 inches] tall,” archaeologist Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson of Uppsala University, who conducted the study, told The Local.

And she was likely in charge.

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http://nypost.com/2017/09/08/viking-skeletons-dna-test-proves-historians-wrong/

[clu]

1. nice

[milestogo]

2. And her name was Hillary.

[eShirl]

3. Yara Greyjoy

[herding cats]

4. I was thinking of Lady Brienne.

We know where our minds were.

[kanda]

16. me, too

My first thought was of Brienne.

[suffragette]

5. Reminds me of 'Kennewick man.' Viewing history and culture through a biased and distorted lens.

Welcome to DU, Lee.

[irisblue]

6. bad ass women, for centuries & centuries.

🙋💁🙆

[tiptonic]

7. Interesting

Sounds like my house, with the woman in charge!!

[LiberalLovinLug]

8. I was thinking more of Queen Lagertha from Vikings

[bucolic_frolic]

9. I love it when historians are wrong

Spinning facts and theories in their Ivory Towers but never coming up with any causality.

They dance around Lenin in the sealed train through WWI, but never tell you who authorized it.

It took them 70 years to acknowledge the financing of Nazi Germany.

[former9thward]

10. The Nazis were not around in WW I.

Any financing of Lenin's train was done through the Kaiser or those working for him.

[bucolic_frolic]

13. I was mixing time periods. I did not say the Nazi's authorized the train.

[KatyMan]

14. Pretty broad brush you're using there

I'm no historian, but I recall Shirer's book in the early 60s made it clear that the industrialists were in cahoots with Hitler from early on (after prison). I don't think it was unknown that US industrial interests were also involved.
I can't speak for the Lenin train as I don't know that history.

[Iggo]

17. Do you love it when archaeologists are wrong, too?

Those arrogant rat bastards!

[LittleGirl]

11. Absolutely Fabulous!

Thanks for sharing. I love this.

Welcome to DU!

[Cuthbert Allgood]

12. When I taught British Literature

I made it pretty clear that those depicted in Beowulf had very strong appreciation for women and that women played a much larger role than they would for centuries to come. Maybe I was reading the wrong historians at that point.

[TheFrenchRazor]

15. i'm as feminist as any woman, but i don't find it commendable when women try to match male levels of

of violence and warfare. i would much rather see men lower their participation in this things down to women's level. i think the planet would be much better off for it.

[lindysalsagal]

18. One for the women. Awesome!