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.