Birdman copper plate may actually show a woman warrior

What BBN said about it

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorA 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.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA woman? On the plate? I'm so happy I might need a tissue.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorIt was found in an Indigenous grave in Georgia nearly a hundred and fifty years ago, and it's about eleven inches tall.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAnd the researchers say the slender body and the prominent right breast suggest the figure may be female.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorShe'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.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorThe Smithsonian's catalogue says dancing in triumph. I assume the head is listed as a plus-one.

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   Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorHigh five!

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorA twenty-oh-four study assumed the figure was male. Nobody asked the figure, and she was holding a club.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorI'm welling up.

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    Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorNobody's saying it's settled, but I'd say that was worth another look.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorI'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.