Roxana Cooper Wrote:
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> Getting back to the topic of women warriors

(Oh ... and I'd been having such fun with the off-topic ... )

> could
> the tiny number of women buried with weapons have
> been leaders rather than warriors, women who
> inherited the authority of father or husband and
> whose weapons were in the nature of regalia?

While not really answering that question, this blog does discuss some of the questions associated with such burials - [howardwilliamsblog.wordpress.com]

General discussion about interpretation of grave goods (and the contexts in which they are found) can also be found in The Archaeology of Death and Burial (Michael Parker Pearson) - [books.google.co.uk].

The particular question that you raise is addressed in this article - [www.nytimes.com].

Hermione
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