US EditionMen are hunters, women are gatherers. That was the assumption. A new study upends it.
- A new study challenges the long-held stereotype that men were the primary hunters in foraging societies, finding that women were actively involved in hunting large game in a majority of societies.
- The study discovered that women taught hunting practices, used a variety of weapons, and played a crucial role in providing food for their families.
- The research highlights the need to challenge gender stereotypes and acknowledges the contributions of women to hunting across different societies throughout history.
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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…
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…
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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