Outstanding Journal Article reward to “Woman with a sword?”

Research Committee of The Faculty of Biological and Environmental Sciences​​​​​​​, University of Helsinki, has awarded “A Woman with a Sword? – Weapon Grave at Suontaka Vesitorninmäki, Finland”  as an one of the Outstanding Journal Articles for 2022. Article is written by Moilanen, U., Kirkinen, T., Saari, N., Rohrlach, A., Krause, J., Onkamo, P., & Salmela, E. (2022) and it is published in​​​​​​​A European Journal of Archaeology, 25(1), 42-60. By usign ancient DNA to identify the chromosomal sex of the individual buried in Suontaka grave the authors provide a new intrepretation on the sex and gender in elevent-twelts century Finland and the existence of non-binary genders.

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