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Women archers competing at the World Nomad Games in Kyrgyzstan.
According to Adrienne Mayor, historian at Stanford, author of "The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World," "it’s a luxury of settled people that they can oppress women.”
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According to Adrienne Mayor, historian at Stanford, author of "The Amazons: Lives and Legends of Warrior Women across the Ancient World," "it’s a luxury of settled people that they can oppress women.”
#SexNotGender
"There have always been women warriors in northern China, Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Korea,” says Christine Lee, who discovered the remains of warrior women in Mongolia, who lived in a nomadic society where someone like Mulan would have lived.
#SexNotGender https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/women-mulan-movie-war-soldiers-warriors-archaeology
#SexNotGender https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/article/women-mulan-movie-war-soldiers-warriors-archaeology
Skeletal evidence from hunter-gatherers in California and herders in Mongolia suggests that women warriors once existed in those populations.
Traditional views of females being largely responsible for gathering food may be too simplistic.
#SexNotGender https://www.sciencenews.org/article/women-warriors-hunter-gatherers-battles-mongolia
Traditional views of females being largely responsible for gathering food may be too simplistic.
#SexNotGender https://www.sciencenews.org/article/women-warriors-hunter-gatherers-battles-mongolia
The women belonged to a nomadic group called the Scythians and were found in one of 19 burial mounds. About one-third of Scythian women whose remains have been found to date were buried with weapons. Many sported war wounds. https://news.artnet.com/art-world/amazon-women-burial-russia-1760256
A high-status Viking warrior who was thought to be a man was found to be a woman after a DNA test.
The bones were theorized to be female in the 70's; this was rejected; in 2016 bone analysis indicated female, and again the idea was rejected.
#SexNotGender https://www.livescience.com/60418-viking-warrior-was-a-woman.html
The bones were theorized to be female in the 70's; this was rejected; in 2016 bone analysis indicated female, and again the idea was rejected.
#SexNotGender https://www.livescience.com/60418-viking-warrior-was-a-woman.html
