Roxana Cooper Wrote:
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> [www.livescience.com]
> The facts are simple. The grave of person
> suffering from a genetic condition that made them
> intersex, NOT non-binary which is a modern gender
> not a physical condition, was found in Finland.

LiveScience apparently has a forum - [forums.livescience.com]

You could perhaps make this point there, if you wished ...

> The person was buried dressed in female garb
> indicating she identified as female. Whether this
> was her choice, her family's or society 's we can
> never know.

> She must have led a difficult life as ancient and
> medieval cultures were highly gendered and very
> binary. However she felt inside her cultural
> choices were Male/Female. As said she apparently
> went with female. She was well enough accepted to
> get an honorable burial with the usual grave goods
> for an elite female.

> The only odd note, other than
> her intersex condition, is the iron sickle across
> her throat. That is not standard, as far as I
> know, and could do with some explaining. The
> possibility that occurs to me is she was
> considered at risk of walking as a revenant and
> the iron tool was intended to prevent that.

Surely, if anyone was concerned about the deceased returning, they would simply have decapitated the corpse ... ?

However, a brief search started to find other examples, such as this one - [www.cambridge.org]

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