Scientists have discovered in the north of France the burial of a woman with four arrowheads. It can reveal the role women played in Neolithic or Early Stone Age societies, reports Live science..

Researchers have studied giant graves known as " Scientists studied 19 graves and analyzed the DNA of 14 buried. Of these, only one burial contained a woman..

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She was buried with " Scientists believe that she should be considered as a "

“We think that these male artifacts were supposed to take her beyond her biological gender identity.. This means that the male incarnation in death was important for her to gain access to burial in these gigantic structures,” said Maite Rivollat, lead author of the study from the University of Bordeaux..

Archaeologists attribute the burial mounds of Fleury-sur-Orne to the Neolithic culture of Cerny. Several other Czerny cemeteries have been discovered hundreds of kilometers away, in the Paris Basin region to the southeast, but Fleury-sur-Orne is the largest found in Normandy.

Despite the fact that there are burials of the Cherni era in the two regions, there were local differences in how the burials of people with high status were arranged in them.. So, in the " The burials in Fleury-sur-Orne were predominantly male, so the discovery of a woman in one of the mounds surprised scientists..

At the same time, it is impossible to tell what kind of life a woman led.. The data that scientists have now is not enough for this. However, in the future, they want to conduct an isotopic analysis of the remains, which will allow them to learn about the woman’s diet, as well as the region in which she was born and lived..

Recall that a new analysis of the ceramic vessels of the XI-XII centuries, which were found in Jerusalem, showed that they were probably used as hand grenades.. Previously, scientists believed that such containers, which are stored in museums around the world, were used for various purposes, including the storage of beer, mercury, medicines and oil..