The Briefing Room
General Category => Science, Technology and Knowledge => Archaeology => Topic started by: Sanguine on July 31, 2019, 12:11:47 am
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Credit: Drawing by Tancredi Valeri; Copyright Antiquity Publications Ltd.
In 2017, a group of researchers in Sweden did a genetic analysis on the bones of a warrior Viking, long assumed to be male. However, the results showed that the individual had XX chromosomes, revealing that the deceased was, in fact, a woman.
There were so many questions about this discovery, that the researchers just published a new study that delved deeper into the finding. Here is an illustration ...
https://www.livescience.com/64815-photos-viking-woman-warrior.html (https://www.livescience.com/64815-photos-viking-woman-warrior.html)
Interesting illustrations.