Archaeologists investigating a 5,000-year-old Copper Age grave
in the Czech Republic believe they may have unearthed the first
known remains of a gay or transvestite caveman, reports the
Telegraph. The man was apparently buried as if he were a woman,
an aberrant practice for an ancient culture known for its strict
burial procedures. Since the grave dates to between 2900 and
2500 BC, the man would have been a member of the Corded Ware
culture, a late Stone Age and Copper Age people named after the
unique kind of pottery they produced. Men in this culture were
traditionally buried lying on their right side with their heads
pointing west, but this man was instead buried on his left side
with his head pointing east, which is how women were typically
buried. "From history and ethnology, we know that people from
this period took funeral rites very seriously so it is highly
unlikely that this positioning was a mistake," said lead
archaeologist Kamila Remisova Vesinova. "Far more likely is that
he was a man with a di