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Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
tess_machling@mastodonapp.uk ("Dr Tess Machling") wrote:

There's nothing that says women can't work gold. So many people roll their eyes when I talk about 'craftspeople', not 'craftsmen'.

But this is why...

There's female goldsmiths with their own marks in medieval London, so why not earlier???

I can't tell you how much it makes me chuckle with glee to see this finally being recognised in prehistory!!

P.s. still not 100% convinced on the shaman bit though - let's have a closer look at some of those supposed decorations... cough... *burnishing*

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/jul/14/ancient-dna-analysis-reveals-upton-lovell-shaman-was-woman-wiltshire

... and if you want to know about the tools *she* was buried with, it's all here:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/materials-in-movement-gold-and-stone-in-process-in-the-upton-lovell-g2a-burial/3BBA3D012898FA68D9F35EA27478BE03