A 1,000-year-old grave may have held a powerful nonbinary person
The remains were previously thought to be a respected woman who might have been a warrior
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An early medieval grave in Finland may have contained the remains of a respected individual (illustrated) who didn’t fit social expectations at the time about how to be either strictly masculine or feminine, researchers say.
U. Moilanen et al/European Journal of Archaeology 2021