For this blog post, I decided to look into other blogs that talk about ossuaries. This blog was an interesting one, and was specifically on the topic of one of our research questions for our group project; the ossuaries in The Talpiot Tomb. The writer, a professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at Duke University, was very inclusive in his blog post. This was a good example for me to look into, because it gave me a better sense of what details I might want to include in my blog about ossuaries. This blog has the perfect picture to text ratio, with clear explanation of what each picture is, and how it directly relates to the subject. There are also links to further research within each paragraph. According to our rubric, this blog would have gotten an A. It is clear, concise and very well written.
Here is the link to the blog:
http://ntweblog.blogspot.ca/2012/03/questioning-identity-of-ossuary-4-in.html
Tuesday 18 March 2014
Tuesday 4 March 2014
Blog 5
Gay Caveman
This week I researched Gay Caveman, and came up with a few interesting results. The first article that came up on my screen was in The Telegraph, about the first homosexual caveman discovered. I decided to read this one, since it seemed quite interesting. The body that was found was approximately 5,000 years old and was found buried in the way that a female would have been buried in the Copper Age. The conclusion was made that this person must have been a male of different sexual orientation than the rest, since burial customs seemed to have been largely important; aka the Gay Caveman.
The next article I read was in The National Post, titled Gay Caveman probably not gay or caveman, this particularly caught my interest, and I decided to read the opposite side of the story. Some people are not born female or male, but instead a third gender, and this has been seen in a few archaeological burials. According to Rosemary Joyce, the Intersex Society of North America estimates that 1% of people are born of a third gender. This article also puts to rest the idea of a "gay caveman", initially pointing out that the people who lived during the Corded Ware age were not actually cavemen, they were pre-Bronze Age farmers.
These articles were very interesting, and I went on to read more about the Gay Caveman in detail, why he was and was not actually a caveman or gay.
This week I researched Gay Caveman, and came up with a few interesting results. The first article that came up on my screen was in The Telegraph, about the first homosexual caveman discovered. I decided to read this one, since it seemed quite interesting. The body that was found was approximately 5,000 years old and was found buried in the way that a female would have been buried in the Copper Age. The conclusion was made that this person must have been a male of different sexual orientation than the rest, since burial customs seemed to have been largely important; aka the Gay Caveman.
The next article I read was in The National Post, titled Gay Caveman probably not gay or caveman, this particularly caught my interest, and I decided to read the opposite side of the story. Some people are not born female or male, but instead a third gender, and this has been seen in a few archaeological burials. According to Rosemary Joyce, the Intersex Society of North America estimates that 1% of people are born of a third gender. This article also puts to rest the idea of a "gay caveman", initially pointing out that the people who lived during the Corded Ware age were not actually cavemen, they were pre-Bronze Age farmers.
These articles were very interesting, and I went on to read more about the Gay Caveman in detail, why he was and was not actually a caveman or gay.
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