http://anthropology.net/2007/05/30/human-sacrifice-in-stone-age-europe/ Beyond bones & stones Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:33:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://anthropology.net/2007/05/30/human-sacrifice-in-stone-age-europe/#comment-15370 Fri, 04 Dec 2009 20:16:58 +0000 http://anthropology.net/2007/05/30/human-sacrifice-in-stone-age-europe/#comment-15370 “By its slender proportions, the third was judged to be female, aged seventeen to twenty”
Oh dear, I wish people would stop that. Sexual dimorphism is relative to time period and population, and not as simple as small = female.
Anyways, I thought the middle skeleton had been sexed as a male? A lecturer of mine reviewed the case about three weeks ago and she mentioned that all individuals were males. Maybe somebody reassessed the skeletons after this post was made?

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