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.
Best part of the story:
A team in Peru found a 9,000-year-old person buried with an unusually large number of hunting tools. "We all just assumed this individual was a male," he recalls. "Everybody is sitting around, saying things like, 'Wow! This is amazing. He must have been a great hunter, a great warrior. Maybe he was a chief!"
...then a colleague who specialized in analyzing bone structure arrived and delivered a bombshell assessment: The remains seemed to be female.
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Ben Fulton