She pointed to examples of 'gender transformers' across most ancient societies. Homosexuality, as Westerners think of it today, comes with a lot of added societal baggage that wouldn't resonate at all with prehistoric man, Arnold said. They were 'sedentary agriculturalists' - farmers. Some initial media reports suggested that the remains belonged to a 'caveman.' But by the Copper Age, 5000 years ago, Europeans weren't cavedwellers at all, said Arnold. 'But what made this individual different? Was it their sexual orientation? That's a little tricky.'
They're making a statement by not putting any of these male identity markers in the grave,' Bettina Arnold, a professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, told. Vesinova concluded that the grave represents 'one of the earliest cases of what could be described as a 'transsexual' or 'third gender grave' in the Czech Republic.'