High-status ancient Spanish tomb held 'Ivory Lady'

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Archaeologists use a new technique to discover that a high-status tomb contained a woman not a man.

The highest status individual in ancient Iberian copper age society was a woman, not a man as previously believed, according to a new study.

Marta Cintas‑Peña, an associate professor of prehistory at the University of Seville, along with her colleagues, detected Ivory Lady's sex using a new technique that identifies chromosomal information in tooth enamel. Leonardo García Sanjuán, a professor of prehistory at the University of Seville, said the riches in the tomb at the copper age settlement of Valencina de la Concepción were incomparable with those found in others at the time.

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