4th July 2010, 07:13 PM
From the photo-the individual doesn`t appear to be "big". The diggers arms are bigger. Biological sex can be determined from skeletal material-gender as a social construct cannot be determined from skeletal material. This is not a crouched burial-the legs are slightly flexed-big difference. Muscle attachments do not make a gladiator.......any more than an excavator desperate to clinch a sensationalist coup can read skeletal remains. Apparently then..... any skeletal material found to exhibit strong muscle attachments are hereonin to be classified as gladiators. Brilliant. Just fantastic. It might be worth consulting with a professional osteologist before reaching for the bat-phone and jumping on the fantasy bandwagon. If its coverage and media interest the excavators are looking for.......they are to be congratulated for highlighting the absurdities that abound today.:face-approve: