One of the first recorded transsexuals found

[q99]

Archeologists say they've made a unique discovery in the Czech Republic: remains of a human male from the Copper Age, who was buried in a way traditionally only reserved for females who were part of the Corded Ware culture."From history and ethnology, we know that people from this period took funeral rites very seriously so it is highly unlikely

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[drhoz]

interesting just how many of these 'primitive' societies had no problem with gender-bending.

[q99]

There are some other possibilities that the article left out; sometimes priests are buried in ways of the other sex, or they could've even misidentified the skeleton.

But yea, some hangups had to be developed.

[drhoz]

*nods* shaman was one of the possibilities that occurred to me, too. Of course, in a fair number of cultures transgenderism or homosexuality was a good indicator for a future as shaman, too.