Talk:Vix Grave

83d40m
Hi, 83d40m, Please do not make major edits rashly. I had to undo the majority of your changes.
 * Do not change British English into the trans-Atlantic version, it is against wikipedia policy (see here). Thus, It is jewellery, not jewelry (your spelling, jewelery is entirely wrong), and sherd, not shard. Personally, I am also not a big fan of expressions like "a great deal of something", as I think the use of "much" is shorter, crisper and less wordy (there is no difference in meaning between "a great deal of jewellery" and "much jewellery"), but if you prefer the longer version, fair enough.
 * Let us avoid too many illustrations, they break the flow of the article and do not add information. Extraneous Hallstatt fibulae or Greek statuettes need not be illustrated, as there are links to the articles on Hallstatt culture, fibula and peplos, where people can look these things up. There'd be hundreds more things that look a bit like something from Vix, but we should only have illustrations that are helpful to further the informative value. What we do need is images of Mont Lassois, plans, images of the graves, and pictures of the actual finds from there.
 * Some of your grammatical changes were not desirable. Eg, "the individual buried is traditionally seen as female" is correct, your version "the individual traditionally buried is seen as female" is a major change, as now the word "traditional" refers to the burial, and not to the gender hypothesis. That is not the key point. The gender has never, to my knowledge, been scientifically determined. For the same reason, it should be "the grave", not "her grave" throughout the rest of the text.
 * Here you are incorrect. There has never been any doubt that the remains of the Lady of Vix are female. The sex of skeletons and remains is one of the easiest factors to verify in basic archeology. (width of pelvis, length of femurs, presence of internal and external organs, etc.)  Even a cursory reading of the literature on Vix shows that the sex of the remains were easily determined to be unquestionably female.  Further excavation of nearby graves has uncovered other high-status female burials which is not at all uncommon among Celts.  Hopefully there is not some unconscious sexism at work here.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.231.136.23 (talk) 18:31, 8 June 2010 (UTC)

There is quite a bit of debate about the remains of the "Lady" of Vix. Because of the size of the skeleton's skull and its cranial capacity, there is quite a bit of thought that the remains may be male. The presence of fibulae and anklets are all we have to go on about the sex at this point, and that is far from conclusive. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 198.137.20.124 (talk) 22:54, 17 July 2012 (UTC)


 * The abbreviation for millimetre is mm, not mmm. I had said that in an earlier edit.
 * The object that could be dated to 525BC was not "one item", but one of the Greek vases (cups). My version made that clear, whereas yours anonymised it.
 * Fürstensitze translates as "princely seats", not as "aristocratic seats" (that would be Aristokratensitze). athinaios 08:02, 21 October 2007 (UTC)