She said that archeologists had uncovered an earlier case dating from the Mesolithic period where a female warrior was buried as a man.

她表示，考古学家发现过一个更早的案例，那是一位中石器时代的女战士，按照男性的方式埋葬。

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The oldest ski artefacts, though, come from the more recent Mesolithic period.

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