Monday, April 22, 2013

Beats Richard 3 beneath a parking lot

“Archaeologists, excavating near the Royal Borough, have discovered the 4400 year old gold-adorned skeleton of an upper class woman who was almost certainly a member of the local ruling elite.”

“The discovery is part of a still ongoing excavation which started a decade ago. The elite gold-and-amber-adorned Copper Age woman is merely the most spectacular of dozens of discoveries made at the site – including four early Neolithic houses, 40 Bronze Age burials, three Bronze Age farm complexes and several Iron Age settlements.”

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/fourthousand-year-old-goldadorned-skeleton-found-near-windsor-8581819.html

(The lead archaeologist said the woman “was probably an important person in her society, perhaps holding some standing which gave her access to prestigious, rare and exotic items. She could have been a leader, a person with power and authority, or possibly part of an elite family - perhaps a princess or queen.” That’s all speculation, of course, and “probably” a deduction based on modern ideas that archaeological women have to be assigned positions of power. Just as likely, she could have been somebody’s favorite girl friend.)

Link at www.gatesofvienna.net

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