The 1,000-year-old woman was found with a Slavic-style ax.
the Birka burial had been held up"as kind of the 'ideal' Viking male warrior grave." He explained:"[The 2017 study] goes to the heart of archaeological interpretation: that we've always mapped on our idea of what gender roles were."
Archaeologists have instead used objects like jewelry to identify burials as female."Fortunately, in the case of the grave of the alleged Slavic woman, the bones have survived, but no injuries are visible that could point to the cause of death," Gardela said. Whether the full-sized weapons were ever actually used in battle is also difficult to know. Those in a better condition may have been specifically made as funerary ornaments, or used as domestic tools. The weapons may also simply have been sharpened and refined before burial, Gardela added.
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