Oh my goodness. This blows my mind. I love it. Please read it. Here are some things I just learned from this text:

"Everybody had just taken this man-the-#hunter hypothesis for granted. So no one really decided to evaluate it," says Haas. "It wasn't really a question on a lot of people's minds."

In 79% of societies, women did hunt.

And my favourite:
The best hunters were grandmothers.

https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/07/01/1184749528/men-are-hunters-women-are-gatherers-that-was-the-assumption-a-new-study-upends-i

#science #anthropology #genderBias

@suvidu
"โ€ฆthe myth that man is the hunter and woman is the gatherer is probably the second most enduring myth that naturalizes the inferiority of women."

Men made this up to supress women. I think.

@Esssie31
I agree. I read somewhere else that this myth was made up in the 19th and 20th century, a time where the patriarchy really took over.