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17. Societal patriarchy imo. Even my own hard core feminist daughter fell prey to this

Tue Sep 8, 2015, 10:25 PM

Sep 2015

Her masters thesis in 2009 focused on womens burial artifacts, even as she grew up in a hard core feminist family. Her academic training instilled in her that women were not the warriors. Looks silly in retrospect BUT...

Regardless of scientific advancements, it takes a melding of disparate elements to "think out of the box".

Right now my daughters focusing on Viking winter camps - those camps that had to occur because the raiding parties got stuck abroad. Her SO is a GIS expert with ESRI. Combining their talents, they've discovered 8 Winter camps in Europe and the UK - buried, like the giant henge recently discovered in England.

Nobody's thought to combine GIS technology with a medieval archaeologist who can spot the anomalies before that and so she ( and he) are hot on the conference trail.

She's not with a University and has no access to funding even as fellow archs rave. C'est la vie...

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Shield maidens were not a myth! [View all] riderinthestorm Sep 2015 OP

Oh yeah? Oh yeah? Then why were they called vi KINGS, huh? orange you glad Sep 2015 #1

The root of the word is Vik....a bay Demeter Sep 2015 #48

Roger Corman was right! TlalocW Sep 2015 #2

Female Viking Jazz dancers are HAWT !!! Monk06 Sep 2015 #40

So was Hammer Films! Tom Kitten Sep 2015 #50

In Northern Britian, the Picts KT2000 Sep 2015 #3

That would distract me DashOneBravo Sep 2015 #7

Keira Knightley and KT2000 Sep 2015 #8

Sounds like a great society GummyBearz Sep 2015 #4

Lagertha approves this message. bluedigger Sep 2015 #5

My oldest is a medieval archaeologist specializing in Vikings riderinthestorm Sep 2015 #6

what a fascinating vocation! grasswire Sep 2015 #11

Her passion isn't related to our genealogy but yup, she's pretty incredible riderinthestorm Sep 2015 #13

That's how I feel about "Call the Midwife" XemaSab Sep 2015 #12

I love that show (and am in love with Lagertha, rawr) but those FIGHT SEQUENCES! Scootaloo Sep 2015 #16

Off topic but couldn't resist replying because of the sheer coincidence/timing. right as I read this Ghost in the Machine Sep 2015 #43

Scythian horse cultures had women warriors. It's believed that this is where the Greeks Cleita Sep 2015 #9

I'm pleased the forensics are bearing out old stories riderinthestorm Sep 2015 #10

And Boudicca too! druidity33 Sep 2015 #21

Also, Boudicca is a historical character, not a myth. Cleita Sep 2015 #39

Sichelgaita also LittleBlue Sep 2015 #22

And maybe just maybe they are not myths at all since jwirr Sep 2015 #31

and they abducted--uh, Chechnyan men? MisterP Sep 2015 #35

k and r with thanks. niyad Sep 2015 #14

Why would anyone ID a skeleton by burial artifacts instead of just looking at the bones? Thor_MN Sep 2015 #15

Societal patriarchy imo. Even my own hard core feminist daughter fell prey to this riderinthestorm Sep 2015 #17

Hi Tree-Hugger Sep 2015 #53

GIS is short for geographic information systems riderinthestorm Sep 2015 #55

Oh wow! Tree-Hugger Sep 2015 #59

Grave goods are important signifiers of status, position, and profession Scootaloo Sep 2015 #19

Yes, and have been proven here to misidentify the gender of soldiers... Thor_MN Sep 2015 #32

+10 million! Forensic archaeology is the new hot field nt riderinthestorm Sep 2015 #33

I'm puzzled by that, too. Mister Ed Sep 2015 #20

I'll take a stab. My daughters trained in artifacts, not skeletons riderinthestorm Sep 2015 #26

If you have a perfectly intact, perfectly preserved pelvis, then yep, it's easy to tell. Calista241 Sep 2015 #45

I read somewhere that 1% of medieval samurai... Nevernose Sep 2015 #18

Onna-bugeisha LittleBlue Sep 2015 #24

I don't think that Japanese historians have forgotten that Art_from_Ark Sep 2015 #47

I was trying to find a polite way Nevernose Sep 2015 #54

Let's hear it for proto-feminist looters & pillagers! Woo-hoo! nt Chef Eric Sep 2015 #23

Riders in the storm.... Ron Obvious Sep 2015 #25

Heh. Pnwnd. I WAS listening to the Doors when I signed up here riderinthestorm Sep 2015 #28

Nobody should die at 27 Ron Obvious Sep 2015 #29

I love reading stories about onna bugeisha yuiyoshida Sep 2015 #27

Walkures... however, are still a myth AlbertCat Sep 2015 #30

Boob armor... ::facepalm:: n/t TygrBright Sep 2015 #36

Costumes for stage.... daleanime Sep 2015 #37

That's gonna piss the neo-Odinist pagan dudes off... right on! n/t TygrBright Sep 2015 #34

Not really 1939 Sep 2015 #41

Recs without a Kick orange you glad Sep 2015 #38

I'm such a dummy! I thought 'shield maidens' meant... pinboy3niner Sep 2015 #42

rec & kick MerryBlooms Sep 2015 #44

A friend of my daughter's is a member of the SWAT team in Rotterdam SwissTony Sep 2015 #46

I've always been very careful of women with knives. bvar22 Sep 2015 #49

Kind of odd HassleCat Sep 2015 #51

Maybe they didn't recognize them as women. Spitfire of ATJ Sep 2015 #52

Does this mean women were raping, burning, murdering, and looting? IronLionZion Sep 2015 #56

K&R!!!!!! burrowowl Sep 2015 #57

Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Sep 2015 #58

Kick!!!! nt Tree-Hugger Sep 2015 #60

This article is way off base in relation to the original paper. Codeine Sep 2015 #61