ARCHAEOLOGISTS FIND REMAINS OF 5000 YEAR OLD GAY CAVEMAN

Archaeologists find remains of 5,000-year-old 'gay caveman'


By Douglas Stanglin, USA TODAY


Archaeologists in the Czech Republic have discovered what they believe are remains of a gay caveman, based on how the body was buried, the Telegraph newspaper reports.

The male body, believed to date to between 2900-2500 B.C., was buried in a manner normally reserved only for women in the Copper Age. The skeleton, for example, was found with its head pointing eastward and surrounded by domestic jugs, in a ritual only seen in the past for female graves.

"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," lead archaeologist Kamila Remisova Vesinova told reporters in Prague this week, the British newspaper reports. "Far more likely is that he was a man with a different sexual orientation, homosexual or transsexual."

Men were traditionally buried with weapons, hammers and flint knives alongside the body. Women were buried with necklaces and pets, as well as jugs and usually an egg-shaped pot place near the feet, the newspaper says.

"We believe this is one of the earliest cases of what could be described as a 'transsexual' or 'third-gender grave' in the Czech Republic," says archaeologist Katerina Semradova.

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