this story about human remains assumed to be male based on the importance of their grave harmonizes well with the opening lines of the book i started reading yesterday, "Ruins" by Lily Brooks-Dalton:
"The endurance of any given historical narrative is never a function of its factual accuracy but rather, of its utility to those who perpetuate it. Creating a record is an inherently selective process, privileging certain events, figures, and objects while obscuring others. As such, collective memory is less an archive of the past than a projection of the present, shaped by contemporary needs, biases, and absences. This raises a fundamental question for the discipline: To what extent does our understanding of earlier civilizations reflect not their realities, but our own?"
Bronze Age remains once thought to belong to a revered male metalworker are in fact female, new DNA analysis has found, calling into questio
"The discovery also calls into question previous assumptions that female burials found with grave goods must have necessarily been the wives of important men."
