Website review: The Amazons: Fact or Fiction?
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PiTrinam discovered 15 months ago- from the page: Jeannine Davis-Kimball is the head archaeologist of a site in Kazakhstan at which burial sites have been unearthed which support the existence of women warriors. Females buried with weapons, as well as other women, some priestesses, some apparently homemakers, give evidence that women did indeed participate in battle. The curved leg bones of one woman attest to a life spent on horseback, which Davis-Kimball concludes is evidence of women's participation in activities that were for the Greeks, male dominated. An arrowhead within the body of another woman apparently was the cause of death, direct evidence of women's participation in battle. The existence of women warriors is also supported by a 1972 discovery in the town of Ordzhonikidze in the southern Ukraine of the grave of a male, female, and infant apparently belonging to a royal caste. Weapons buried alongside the woman again gives evidence of women participating in battle. This once more supports the theory that women were indeed warriors in ancient cultures, but there is no proof that this is the same culture as the Amazons. The burial of a man and infant with the woman instead give evidence of a culture based on equality between men and women, rather than one in which women dominated the culture. This site, like that in Kazakhstan, does not prove the existence of Amazons, but of a culture in which women participated in battle.
