One thing which I find almost sad is that there is always so much interest and speculation when people discover same sex bodies. When reading this article it almost sounded like its trying to sensationalize the discoveries. Although the people buried together may be the same sex it is quite possible that they are not the same gender. This is something which is very important for archaeologists to keep in mind, just because our culture has a binary gender system (which we may be slowly changing :)) it doesn’t mean that every culture does.
As well throughout the article it does not mention that the sexing of skeletons is not 100%. For there is always room for error.
Abrahamsen Valerie 1998. “Burials in Greek Macedonia: Possible Evidence for Same-Sex Committed Relationships in Early Christianity” Institute for Higher Critical Studies URL: http://depts.drew.edu/jhc/samesex.html Accessed on April 1, 2011.
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