This was a Zeitgeist poem that I wrote in class for an assignment. I wrote it about a woman who was recently found in a tomb southeast of the Iberian Peninsula. The artifacts that were found there on both the woman and male who were buried in the tomb, started to change the conversation suronding the power dynamic of the Bronze Age. She was buried with a crown on her head, and only six others have been found like it. Because of this, historians began to realize that maybe women held a lot more power in society than previously thought. They could have been the ones who were in politics, while the men controlled more of the military. 

I thought that her bringing around this sort of conversation was very interesting and so I chose her to be the focus of my poem. I really hope that I represented her well because I think that she deserves that. 

The article I got my information from was from the New York Times. If you want to know more about her or more in depth knowledge than I gave here, then here is the link to that article: nytimes.com/2021/03/11/science/bronze-age-tomb-women.html?surface=home-discovery-vi-prg&fellback=false&req_id=491271435&algo=identity&variant=no-exp&imp_id=421973923&action=click&module=Science%20%20Technology&pgtype=Homepage

 Thank you so much for taking the time out of your day to read over my poem! 

Ciara Firth