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The Bioarchaeology of Socio-Sexual Lives

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In February 2007, I met the “Lovers of Valdaro ,” a well-preserved Neolithic double burial that archaeologists had unearthed in northern Italy.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    See http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2007-02-07-neolithic-love_x.htm, accessed 21 December 2015.

  2. 2.

    Multiple news stories included this statement: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/07/gay-caveman-found-prague_n_846246.html; http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/8433527/First-homosexual-caveman-found.html; and http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/archaeologists-discover-first-ever-gay-caveman-czech-republic-man-buried-pots-not-tools-article-1.114638. All were accessed on 11 April 2011.

  3. 3.

    For examples see: http://www.usmessageboard.com/threads/gay-caveman-found-by-archaeologists.163154/; http://christwire.org/2011/04/the-gay-caveman-agenda/; http://www.theapricity.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-25878.html; http://scducks.com/forum/archive/index.php/t-69503.html; and http://www.subsim.com/radioroom//archive/index.php/t-182293.html (all were accessed on 9 December 2015).

  4. 4.

    For Joyce’s blog see: https://ancientbodies.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/gay-caveman-wrecking-a-perfectly-good-story/. For Hawks’s blog see: johnhawks.net/weblog/topics/meta/communication/gay-caveman-prague-2011.html. For Killgrove’s blog see: www.poweredbyosteons.org/2011/04/gay-caveman-zomfg.html?m=1. All were accessed on 21 December 2015.

  5. 5.

    For example sees: http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/04/10/czech.republic.unusual.burial/ and http://www.livescience.com/13620-gay-caveman-story-overblown.html. Both were accessed on 11 April 2011.

  6. 6.

    See http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/12/05/siberian-gender-bending-warrior-princess.html, accessed on 17 February 2016.

  7. 7.

    See http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2015/12/01/no-the-siberian-ice-maiden-is-not-a-man/, accessed 17 February 2016.

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Geller, P.L. (2017). An Introduction. In: The Bioarchaeology of Socio-Sexual Lives. Bioarchaeology and Social Theory. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40995-5_1

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