“Man-the-Hunter” Hypothesis Debunked?

[dognose]

For centuries, historians and scientists mostly agreed that when early human groups sought food, men hunted and women gathered. However, a 9,000-year-old female hunter burial in the Andes Mountains of South America reveals a different story, according to new research conducted at the University of California, Davis.


“An archaeological discovery and analysis of early burial practices overturns the long-held ‘man-the-hunter’ hypothesis,” said Randy Haas, assistant professor of anthropology and the lead author of the study, “Female Hunters of the Early Americas.” It was published today (November 4, 2020) in Science Advances.

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“Man-the-Hunter” Hypothesis Debunked? Research Suggests Early Big-Game Hunters of the Americas Were Female
By UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - DAVIS NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Interesting.

 

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[uniface]

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[smallfoot]

I'm thinking in any given time frame there are those women that can take care of business if necessary. Whether it was done out of necessity or just because they could is up for grabs as much as it is today. Don't make the mistake of taking your best girl shooting only to have her out shoot you...with your own gun! Every woman I have ever shot with could pick up a strange tool and use it well enough that you wouldn't doubt them. Now, whether or not the tools and artifacts found with that set of bones means anything is probably just conjecture. Just my opinion...

 

[MAMucker]

I'm sure there were widows back then as there are today, who had to fend for themselves. They were probably a lot better at it than most would be nowadays.

I believe they all had a very short life span

 

[unclemac]

i read that article when it first came out... the problem with all this revisionist woman-as-an-equal nonsense is very simple.... women were, until quite recently, slaves to child rearing and child baring. END OF STORY. Male/female roles are (were) designated by reproductive capabilities and needs. In dig after dig after dig after dig of massacre sites male skeletons far outnumber the female ones... it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out why.

 

[uniface]

It educated me to read the biography of Ishi. Sexual roles were rigorously defined. Some tribes probably showed natural human variability in this in specifics, but not in overall practice -- any more than our culture did until the social engineers started playing with it via Hollywood, mass media, "education? &c.

FWIW