10th-century woman buried with weapons in Hungary is 1st of her kind, but researchers are hesitant to call her a warrior

Outline of a skeleton in a grave in white on black next to a reconstruction of the person in the grave, an elderly woman dressed in khaki clothing holding a bow and arrow.

A medieval skeleton buried with archery equipment in a 10th-century cemetery in Hungary belongs to a woman, a new DNA analysis finds. But because her grave is so unique, researchers have stopped short of calling her a warrior.

"Evaluating the possible 'occupation' of the individual is a complex problem," Balázs Tihanyi, a bioarchaeologist at the University of Szeged in Hungary and colleagues wrote in their study published Nov. 26 in the journal PLOS One, but the woman "may have had a lifestyle similar to other individuals buried with weapons in the cemetery."