Search for: [Abstract = %22Krumlovsk%C3%BD les revealed one of the largest mining fields in Europe dated from the Mesolithic to the Hallstatt period. Quarrying culminated in the Early Bronze Age%2C when the local Jurassic chert%2C re%5C-deposited in the Miocene sands%2C was extracted from hundreds of shafts up to 8m deep%2C with most of the production material left at the site. The largest shafts of the Late Lengyel culture were located on a slope below a re%5C-deposited boulder. Shaft no. 4 yielded two skeletons of females%5C%3B the lower one had a newborn placed on her breasts. Both women were found to be the shortest of the then population as a whole%2C and they were weak%2C diseased%2C and poorly fed during their childhood. By contrast%2C as adults they were fed with meat and carried out heavy work%2C which is corroborated by strongly marked muscle attachments and vertebral degeneration. The hypothesis is that the patriarchy extracted labor %5C(also%5C) from lower status individuals who toiled in the mines. However ritual aspects cannot be excluded%5C: in some lands%2C the Earth is of female gender%2C and as such will more willingly accept women than men%E2%80%A6 but why exactly the smallest ones%5C%3F%22]

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