Men are hunters, women are gatherers. That was the assumption. A new study upends it.

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Scientific Research Finds Assumptions About Ancient Gender Roles Are BS

Recent scientific data disproves stereotypical gender roles in hunter-gatherer societies.

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Men are hunters, women are gatherers. That was the assumption. A new study upends it.

A group of young women from the Awa people in Brazil hold their bows and arrows as they return from a hunt. A new reexamination of ethnographic studies finds female hunters are common in hunter-gatherer societies. (Scott Wallace/Getty Images) https://media.ktoo.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/20230628_atc_women_hunters.mp3 For decades, scientists have believed that early humans had a division of labor: Men generally did the hunting and women did…

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Women in prehistoric times hunted, too, study says

New research is calling into question assumed gender roles of ancient humans.

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Men are hunters, women are gatherers. That was the assumption. A new study upends it.

For decades, scientists have believed that early humans had a division of labor: Men generally did the hunting and women did the gathering. And this view hasn’t been limited to academics. It’s often been used to make the case that men and women today should stick to the supposedly “natural” roles that early human society reveals.Now a new study suggests the vision of early men as the exclusive hunters is simply wrong – and that evidence that ear…

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Men are hunters, women are gatherers. That was the assumption. A new study upends it.

The implications are potentially enormous, says history professor Kimberly Hamlin: "The myth that man is the hunter and woman is the gatherer ... naturalizes the inferiority of women."

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Men are hunters, women are gatherers. That was the assumption. A new study upends it. - Democratic Underground