‘Active’ Bronze Age woman found in Highland woods (Scotland)

[theHandpuppet]

‘Active’ Bronze Age woman found in Highland woods
The Scotsman
Friday 14th February 2014
by ALISTAIR MUNRO

A BRONZE Age grave uncovered in the Highlands has revealed the remains of a woman in her forties who was suffering from toothache before she died 4,000 years ago.

Archaeologists from Glasgow-based Guard Archaeology were called in when a cist – a stone burial chest – was inadvertently disturbed by construction workers during landscaping of an access track through Cullaird Wood in West Torbreck, south-west of Inverness...

... Osteoarchaeologist Maureen Kilpatrick analysed the bones and discovered that they belonged to a woman aged between 40 and 44.

She said: “As the radiocarbon date demonstrates, this occurred at some point between 1982BC and 1889BC.... MORE

http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/heritage/active-bronze-age-woman-found-in-highland-woods-1-3304751

[Judi Lynn]

1. Thanks to theHandpuppet. This is really interesting. n/t

[theHandpuppet]

2. You know what I found odd about this article?

Why in the world would anyone think a Bronze Age woman wouldn't be active? What did they think women were doing? Spending their days blogging or shopping? Methinks too many people have seen the movie 1,000,000 B.C. with Raquel Welch.

I'll bet the male specimens were also found to be more "active" than their counterparts today.