Did you ever hear about the princess of vix? I learned so much from her. My lecturer said there was so much controversy over her because so many 'experts' refused to believe she was female because her burial was so elite and wealthy. They insisted she was a slight male. After it was proven, they said she must have been the wife of someone important, she couldn't possibly be so wealthy in her own right. Plonkers! She was disabled too, and would have walked with a limp. Imagine that! Look at how disgustingly modern patriarchal society treats disabled people today... makes out they're spongers and impoverishes them. But of course we are so much more civilised today.😂
In many ways, I hope the mysteries are never solved. We have lost any connection to pre-industrial people, never mind prehistoric people. Our world is full of noise and static and people! They had something we have lost forever.
That is so true, Jane. I think its the paternalistic interpretations of the past that rile me most. Oh, and the misogynistic ones. It's impossible to view the past through any lense other than our own, I guess.
Those assumptions about the past, that only men could have done this blah blah that obviously the artists were men blah blah that the main focus of life was warfare/hunting/aggression/expansion blah blah, really gets up my strils too.
Did you ever hear about the princess of vix? I learned so much from her. My lecturer said there was so much controversy over her because so many 'experts' refused to believe she was female because her burial was so elite and wealthy. They insisted she was a slight male. After it was proven, they said she must have been the wife of someone important, she couldn't possibly be so wealthy in her own right. Plonkers! She was disabled too, and would have walked with a limp. Imagine that! Look at how disgustingly modern patriarchal society treats disabled people today... makes out they're spongers and impoverishes them. But of course we are so much more civilised today.😂
In many ways, I hope the mysteries are never solved. We have lost any connection to pre-industrial people, never mind prehistoric people. Our world is full of noise and static and people! They had something we have lost forever.
That is so true, Jane. I think its the paternalistic interpretations of the past that rile me most. Oh, and the misogynistic ones. It's impossible to view the past through any lense other than our own, I guess.
Those assumptions about the past, that only men could have done this blah blah that obviously the artists were men blah blah that the main focus of life was warfare/hunting/aggression/expansion blah blah, really gets up my strils too.