Interpreting the gender identity of the Suontaka Vesitorninmäki burial.
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Reports of women buried with weapons always generate considerable interest in archaeology. One notable example of this is the Suontaka Vesitorninmäki grave from southern Finland, which has been interpreted as a woman buried with two swords, based upon the feminine clothing of the individual, and the presence of jewellery, which is not generally found in male burials of the period (the grave has been dated to between 1050 and 1300 AD). This site has been held up as an example of a powerful woman in a late Iron Age/early medieval society since its discovery in the 1960s, and was on permanent display as evidence of a female leader at the National Museum of Finland from 1995 to 2016, with one of the swords from the site being on display in the ‘Meet the Vikings’ exhibition at the National Museum of Denmark as a woman's weapon.
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Instead of "In the year of our Lord" (AD), as nonbeliever(s), wouldn't it make more sense to use CE ?
(regardless of what others say/use)
FearlessFly
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Aug 26, 2021
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JoeB:
Possibly, but it would cause utter confusion in many non-English speakers, so I avoid it.
@JoeB Yea, like in Texas and Florida where CE is an atheist plot to remove the "Year of our Lord" from our vocabulary. I'm just so old that using AD or CE means nothing to me because synonyms, but honestly I keep forgetting CE and I'm guilty of using AD knowing it's archaic then having to look up CE to remember what the two letters are supposed to be. I guess I just have to learn to remember "Common Era" but somehow it's counter intuitive. Somehow mentally it's not like trying to pull a sardine out of a can with your fingers, it's like trying to fish a live sardine intent on escaping out of a bathtub full of lube with your fingers.
JoeB:
I deal with a lot od Asian students who certainly aren't Christian, but who are horrified by our tendency to replace established acronyms with new ones, so I don't do it lightly,
We all have knives.
Willow_Wisp
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Aug 26, 2021
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Sometimes I almost forget what a queen she was ... in all senses.
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