and now about gender assumptions
http://www.livescience.com/40530-etruscan-warrior-prince-is-a-princess.html
People don't know much about Etruscan society, so the theories which seem to surround this is either it was this nice lady's spear, or that it was a symbol of the bond between her and the guy whose ashes showed up in the tomb. I'd wonder about a third possibility; whether she was buried with the spear because she was a ruler and that was a ruler's symbol. If she's the queen of a pretty militaristic group of guys, why wouldn't she have a spear, no matter how often she did or didn't fight?
People don't know much about Etruscan society, so the theories which seem to surround this is either it was this nice lady's spear, or that it was a symbol of the bond between her and the guy whose ashes showed up in the tomb. I'd wonder about a third possibility; whether she was buried with the spear because she was a ruler and that was a ruler's symbol. If she's the queen of a pretty militaristic group of guys, why wouldn't she have a spear, no matter how often she did or didn't fight?