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Birdman Plate: 700-Year-Old Warrior Holding a Head May Be a Woman
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What BBN said on air. The facts are in the original report: Live Science.
Chip DarnellA seven-hundred-year-old copper plate called Birdman may actually show a woman dressed as a warrior, Live Science reports, and folks, I am thrilled.
Vera BullockA woman? On the plate? I'm so happy I might need a tissue.
Chip DarnellIt was found in an Indigenous grave in Georgia nearly a hundred and fifty years ago, and it's about eleven inches tall.
Vera BullockAnd the researchers say the slender body and the prominent right breast suggest the figure may be female.
Chip DarnellShe's holding a club in one hand and a severed head by the hair in the other, and she looks like she's having a great day.
Vera BullockThe Smithsonian's catalogue says dancing in triumph. I assume the head is listed as a plus-one.
Chip DarnellHigh five!
Vera BullockA twenty-oh-four study assumed the figure was male. Nobody asked the figure, and she was holding a club.
Vera BullockI'm welling up.
Chip DarnellNobody's saying it's settled, but I'd say that was worth another look.
Vera BullockI'm not crying about the head, Chip. The head is fine. I'm crying because the label got corrected after a hundred and fifty years.
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