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Re:Peptide analyses reveal female leadership in Copper Age I... by huitzitziltzin on Monday July 10, 2023 @09:00PM (#36675216)
Some of the inferential steps in this article are… “heroic” might be a polite way to put it.

“Furthermore, the fact that none of the infant burials found in Valencina have grave goods suggests that, among the communities that lived in or frequented this site, social status was not ascribed by birth (and therefore no significant inheritance of wealth occurred), contrary to what would happen later in the Early Bronze Age)32. Therefore, it is fair to assume that the individual inhumed in structure 10.049 gained a prominent social position through merit and personal achievement and did not ‘inherit’ it by birth.”

I mean… on the basis of the tombs that have been found you want to infer that? Sorry but there’s ten other stories that fit the available evidence. This interpretation really stretches credulity beyond the breaking point.

Re:Peptide analyses reveal female leadership in Copper Age I... by cataphract on Monday July 10, 2023 @09:16PM (#36675315)
Yeah, I could even buy the first part, I don't know archaeology and can't say which inferences about the society you can make based on the existence or absence of grave goods in that era.

But it's one thing to characterize the society of the time based on the totality of evidence, it's another to ascribe "merit and personal achievement" to one specific person.

Re:Peptide analyses reveal female leadership in Copper Age I... by jojobas on Monday July 10, 2023 @11:38PM (#36676157)
-Excavations near Bristol revealed copper wires, indicating their use of wired telegraph.

-Excavations near Nowherabad revealed nothing, indicating their use of wireless telegraph.

Re:Peptide analyses reveal female leadership in Copper Age I... by zgluck on Monday July 10, 2023 @09:08PM (#36675271)
The entire article (please actually read it before interacting here) is built upon multiple staggered leaps of faith and ends up collapsing. The author should study high-school level probability theory.
Re:Peptide analyses reveal female leadership in Copper Age I... by joiqj on Tuesday July 11, 2023 @04:44AM (#36678100)
If you google the name of the authors you can see that some of them have a political agenda to push.