Skeletons found with items that don’t align with their estimated sex are usually excluded from research – but that assumes a 19th century view of gender.
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Hundreds of years ago, people spoke Old English – but it is very different to English today.
The excavation of the 7th century Saxon ship at Sutton Hoo was remarkable – but we can’t ignore the harmful rhetoric about the ‘Anglo-Saxon’ race in a new Netflix film dramatising the find.
The Digs’ archaeologists are closer to reality than the intrepid Indiana Jones, and that’s refreshing.
