ΤΣΕΧΙΑ. ΒΡΕΘΗΚΕ ΣΚΕΛΕΤΟΣ ΔΙΑΦΥΛΙΚΗΣ (;) ΓΥΝΑΙΚΑΣ 5000 ΧΡΟΝΩΝ

The skeleton was found in a Prague suburb with its head pointing eastwards and surrounded by domestic jugs - rituals only previously seen in female graves. Men would normally be buried with weapons, hammers and flint knives

One of the domestic jugs among the caveman's remains. Normally only placed in female graves, the jugs suggest the caveman was either homosexual or transsexual

Archaeologists have unearthed the 5,000-year-old remains of what they believe may have been the world's oldest known gay caveman. The male body - said to be nearly 5,000 years old - was discovered buried in a way normally reserved only for women of the Corded Ware culture in the Copper Age. The skeleton was found in Bubenec, Czech Republic, with its head pointing eastwards and surrounded by domestic jugs, rituals only previously seen in female graves.
"The people from this period took funeral rites very seriously so it is highly unlikely that this positioning was a mistake," said lead archaeologist Kamila Remisova Vesínova. "Far more likely is that he was a man with a different sexual orientation, homosexual or transsexual," she added. (croatiantimes.com)

Another member of the archaeological team, Katerina Semradova, said that colleagues had uncovered an earlier case dating from the Mesolithic period where a female warrior was buried as a man.
She added that Siberian shamans, or witch doctors, were also buried in this way but with richer funeral accessories appropriate to their elevated position in society.
‘This later discovery was neither of those. We believe this is one of the earliest cases of what could be described as a transvestite or third-gender grave in the Czech Republic (dailymail.co.uk)