So if there were no males, how were they able to get pregnant and reproduce? As a warrior woman, only if you had killed a man in battle could you go to other tribes and mate with their men.
It is even rumored that these women cut off their left breast to be more exact with their bow and arrows.
The location was said to be in the Eurasian steppes.
What happened to this group of warriors? Are they completely gone or are there people today related to them?
The image below is a Greek painting that shows women on horseback in a battle.
Dr. Jeannine Davis-Kimball came upon Archaemedian carved stones depicting scenes of nomads paying tribute to a king. She originally studied Iranian Art, but her findings intrigued her enough to begin more investigation.
She eventually began excavation on the burial mounds in Kazakhstan. In 1994, in Porkovka, Russia, she found a burial that was a woman warrior and in some high status of importance. According to the bone structure and the way the skeleton was buried, we find that the body they found was a female warrior. Her legs were bowed in which shows evidence of hours on horseback. The skeleton was in the stance of a warrior(how they buried them back then). To confirm their beliefs that what they found was indeed a female, they took the bones back to a lab in Germany and did DNA testing. It was confirmed!! They had a hit!!!
Davis-Kimball had finally found proof of female warriors!
Based on artifacts in the kurgan , we see that she was a priestess because of a spiritual bottle in her tomb. We can tell she was of high importance because in her kurgan, there were found earrings and gold beads. We know she was a warrior because she was buried with her arrowheads.
Davis-Kimball went on a search throughout the nomadic regions of Western Mongolia to see if she could find any blond children. If she found what she was looking for, perhaps this could be a direct ancestor of a female warrior.
Eventually she and her team came upon something very interesting...
In a nomadic family, there is a girl by the name of Meiramgul who looked nothing like her brothers or sisters. Her family has dark hair and dark eyes, but Meiramgul has blond hair and hazel eyes. Her face is less European and more Mongolian, but Davis-Kimball is hopeful.
Davis-Kimball took samples of DNA, through a mouth swab, of Meiramgul and her mother to see if either of them were possibly a match.
They waited for results.
It seems that the DNA of Meiramgul's mother did not match that of the skeleton. This was not a success.
However, the DNA of Meiramgul herself and that of the skeletonwere an EXACT MATCH.
As some of us may or may not know, DNA traits can skip generations. This explains why the DNA of Meiramgul's mother and the skeleton did not match
This was finally proof that warrior women had existed and that they have descendants.
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What is the exact haplosubclade of Meiramgul?
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