12-18-2019, 07:49 PM
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019...s-eyebrows
Laura Wynn-Antikas specialises in bringing bones to life. Decades spent studying skeletal remains across Greece, in subterranean vaults, tombs, chapels and archaeological sites, have yielded a host of unexpected discoveries. “You never know what you are going to find,” the American-born anthropologist said. “Bones don’t lie. They will tell you how a person lived and perhaps even how they died. You go in prepared to see everything.”
But when Wynn-Antikas was called to examine bones unearthed beneath the stone floor of a Byzantine chapel in the all-male monastic republic of Mount Athos even she was surprised. Some were so small they bore little resemblance to men’s at all.
“Among them were a forearm, shinbone and sacrum that were just so different in their morphology,” added the academic. “While the others were more robust and had clearly belonged to the frames of men, these had measurements that noticeably fell in the range of a female. They were markedly different in size.”
“If we are talking about a woman, or indeed more than one woman, it will raise a lot of questions,” Wynn-Antikas said. “Starting with who could she have possibly been.”
Wow, I'd like to know whether these remains really were female - and, if so, how old they are. Presumably, they're at least several hundred years old, but maybe they pre-date the ban on women (which originated in the 10th century, according to the article)?
Otherwise, maybe a woman snuck in and died there? (I know know that a few women made it in over the centuries, but as far as I know, they all got out alive...)
Laura Wynn-Antikas specialises in bringing bones to life. Decades spent studying skeletal remains across Greece, in subterranean vaults, tombs, chapels and archaeological sites, have yielded a host of unexpected discoveries. “You never know what you are going to find,” the American-born anthropologist said. “Bones don’t lie. They will tell you how a person lived and perhaps even how they died. You go in prepared to see everything.”
But when Wynn-Antikas was called to examine bones unearthed beneath the stone floor of a Byzantine chapel in the all-male monastic republic of Mount Athos even she was surprised. Some were so small they bore little resemblance to men’s at all.
“Among them were a forearm, shinbone and sacrum that were just so different in their morphology,” added the academic. “While the others were more robust and had clearly belonged to the frames of men, these had measurements that noticeably fell in the range of a female. They were markedly different in size.”
“If we are talking about a woman, or indeed more than one woman, it will raise a lot of questions,” Wynn-Antikas said. “Starting with who could she have possibly been.”
Wow, I'd like to know whether these remains really were female - and, if so, how old they are. Presumably, they're at least several hundred years old, but maybe they pre-date the ban on women (which originated in the 10th century, according to the article)?
Otherwise, maybe a woman snuck in and died there? (I know know that a few women made it in over the centuries, but as far as I know, they all got out alive...)
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