Based on a recent archaeological find, there is now reason to believe that homosexuality actually dates as far back as the time of the caveman.
According to a report on The Telegraph, archaeologists digging in the Czech Republic unearthed the bones of a male body said to be a member of the Corded Ware culture during the Copper Age.
The peculiar thing about his burial was that he was buried in a manner more befitting of a female corpse.
According to lead archaeologist Kamila Remisova Vesinova, the burial rites during this age were strictly adhered to.
She explained that men were routinely “buried lying on their right side with their heads pointing towards the west.” Women were buried in the opposite way; on their left and facing east. But both would have been buried in a fetal-like position.
Furthermore, she said that men were traditionally buried with their weapons, and anything else that symbolized their station in the society as manly men. Women, on the other hand, were buried with more domestic paraphernalia.
This recent discovery? Buried with “domestic jugs,” items that are more suited for a female’s grave, and facing east and lying on his left side. He was also found buried with an egg-shaped container at the foot of his grave. Egg-shaped objects, as everyone knows, are often associated with a woman’s fertility.
Clearly, this new discovery was not the hunter-gatherer of his group.
"We believe this is one of the earliest cases of what could be described as a 'transsexual' or 'third gender grave' in the Czech Republic," archaeologist Katerina Semradova told a press conference…
Refreshing to know that, at the very least, in the caveman days of yore, a man’s effeminateness wasn’t a hindrance for a decent burial.
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