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Tell el-Dab'a
Tell el-Dab'a remains were of donkeys not horses so they were donkey burials. This needs to be changed. Akmal94 (talk) 06:18, 31 August 2020 (UTC)

Gender bias in Icelandic horse burials
We have two seemingly conflicting comments on the gender split of Icelandic horse burials:


 * "There were so many graves in which the remains of a human female was associated with those of a horse, that it was speculated that a horse burial in association with a male warrior did not occur in Iceland."
 * "Horse burials are found in both Norway and Iceland to occur more frequently with males, but are not exclusive to males."

We should rectify this. I'll try and look into the sources when I get the time but this can serve in the meanwhile in case someone beats me to it. Ingwina (talk) 08:22, 23 May 2023 (UTC)
 * Yes, great. But is "gender bias" really the right concept to use here? Force of habit perhaps. Johnbod (talk) 15:04, 23 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I'm unsure of to what habit you are referring. "Gender bias" or "sexual bias" are normal and widespread phrases in scholarship on topics such as this for a sample that shows a skew towards one particular gender or sex. Though I can see it could be interpreted out of context to refer to some kind of discrimination or something along those lines, I hope the rest of the content makes the meaning quite clear. I further hope the point is clear about the issue here and what we are to work to resolve to give a more accurate coverage of the topic. Ingwina (talk) 16:18, 23 May 2023 (UTC)
 * I would think "gender distribution" more neutral and appropriate. "Bias" is inherently pejorative.  Johnbod (talk) 01:39, 24 May 2023 (UTC)