Scientists say DNA tests show Viking warrior was female

[Buster's Uncle]

Scientists say DNA tests show Viking warrior was female
By The Associated Press ·BERLIN — Sep 11, 2017, 9:54 AM ET






Scientists say DNA tests on a skeleton found in a lavish Viking warrior's grave in Sweden show the remains are those of a woman in her 30s.

While bone experts had long suspected the remains belong to a woman, the idea had previously been dismissed despite other accounts supporting the existence of female Viking warriors.

Swedish researchers used new methods to analyze genetic material from the 1,000-year-old bones at a Viking-era site known as Birka, near Stockholm.

Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson of Uppsala University said Monday the tests show "it is definitely a woman."

Hedenstierna-Jonson said the grave is particularly well-furnished, with a sword, shields, various other weapons and horses.

Writing in the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, the researchers say it's the first confirmed remains of a high-ranking female Viking warrior.


http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/scientists-dna-tests-show-viking-warrior-female-49765740

[Unorthodox]

Lesson, trust the bone experts. 

[Buster's Uncle]

-Also, gurl powah, yay.  Show it to Talia; I bet she'll be interested.

[Unorthodox]

I need her focused on jellyfish.  (science report) 

Apparently hEt had issues with her original desire to do something on the donner party. 

[Buster's Uncle]

[Unorthodox]

Her teacher was shocked she even knew what the Donner party WAS. 

She picks up some odd things, that's for sure. 

[Buster's Uncle]

...hEt walked right into that one about two decades ago, now...

[Unorthodox]

Oh, Talia REALLY gets into a lot of the science series on Netflix. 

We were watching the world's weirdest swarms (or something to that effect) over the weekend. 

[Buster's Uncle]

Of course you were. 

-I am laughing at you, but not with disrespect.

[Geo]

On the Norse warrior here... wonder if she ever got berserk.

[Buster's Uncle]

She was dead before they invented that game, or even computers.