Um, wow...

[desperance]

So I'm sitting here working on m'new SF story, wishing it wasn't starting to feel quite so long (I do not have time to write novellae, damn it, I have other stuff to do...!), and I suddenly need to know if there are traditional or mythological names for female centaurs; so I google, naturally. And I find a site that is no help at all with nomenclature, but its opening sentence rivets me instanter:

"The eclipse of the female centaur from history is a critical failure to know rather than an anthropological failure of knowledge. The evidence from recent digs in Tunis, Turkey, and most recently Cleveland, Ohio have provided anthropologists ... with dozens of specimens of female centaur remains..."

And so it goes on. It's the work of one Dr Anderson at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, apparently, and I recommend it to you. Urgently. You can find the rest of the paper here. Enjoy...

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[mantichore.livejournal.com]

Of course, there are female centaurs. Who could forget the centaurettes in the saccharine-sweet illustration of Beethoven's Sixth in Walt Disney's Fantasia? (I even remember some critic or other noting that the nice centaurettes had tiny, pert, demure bosoms while the harpies of Night on Bald Mountain had huge pendulous breasts, which seemed to indicate where sexuality fitted in Disney's world view!). Not sure what names these horse-teens would have, but context seems to indicate Betty and Veronica as likely possibilities. ^______^

I have to try and find that article you mention, though. The mention of archeological digs in Cleveland, Ohio, leading to new evidence about female centaurs leaves me slightly perplexed. I'm sure it will make more sense if I read it.