No bones about his orientation: The gender-bending skeleton. Picture: International Austral Source: The Daily Telegraph
Scientists from the Czech Archeological Society claim the way that he was buried suggests that he was of a different sexual persuasion.
The skeleton of the late Stone Age man, unearthed during excavations in the capital Prague, is said to date back to between 2900BC and 2500BC. During that period, men were usually buried lying on their right side with the head pointing towards the west, women on their left side with the head facing east.
In this case, the man was on his left side with his head facing west. Another clue is that men tended to be interred with weapons, hammers and flint knives to accompany them to the other side. Women would be buried with necklaces made from teeth, pets and copper earrings, as well as domestic jugs and an egg-shaped pot near the feet.
The "gay caveman" was buried with household jugs, and no weapons.Lead researcher Kamila Remisova Vesinova said her team did not think it was a mistake or coincidence, given the importance attached to funerals during the period, known as the Corded Ware era because of the pottery it produced.
"From history and ethnology, we know that people from this period took funeral rites very seriously, so it is highly unlikely this positioning was a mistake," she said.
"Far more likely is that he was a man with a different sexual orientation, homosexual or transvestite. What we see here does not add up to traditional Corded Ware cultural norms."
An egg-shaped container usually associated with female burials was also found.
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