ThaTeacherAMCJul 7, 2023
Lizet Kruyff

#foodhistory Men hunt and women gather? Large analysis says the long-held idea is flat-out wrong

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/men-hunt-and-women-gather-large-analysis-says-the-long-held-idea-is-flat-out-wrong

#foodhistory #prehistory #histodons #food #hunting

Men hunt and women gather? Large analysis says the long-held idea is flat-out wrong

Scientists studying hunter-gatherer societies around the world discovered the stereotypes that men were hunters and women were gatherers was wrong.

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Show threadnyamiJul 6, 2023
@lizetkruyff If I'm not mistaken, in H/G communities, if women are nursing they more-so focus on that, but otherwise hunt and gather at the same rates as men. Any biological difference is negligible.
Show threadLizet KruyffJul 6, 2023
@nyami Indeed, but the myth was very difficult to kill, and now it's official :-)
Show threadnyamiJul 6, 2023
@lizetkruyff 🎉
Show threadJoeChipJul 7, 2023
@lizetkruyff
It's scandalous how allegedly "scientific" disciplines regularly turn out apologetics for the status quo. Looking at you #economics #EvPsych #Anthropology & #Psychology. Yes, I'm over-generalizing, but still.
Show threadPreston WalbergJul 7, 2023
@JoeChip @lizetkruyff I would love to see research, if it was feasible, focused on how much of the 'results' of our scientific studies are unconscious projections of our own personsl and cultur biases and cultural norms.
Show threadLizet KruyffJul 7, 2023
@presandberg This has been done, I guess. But, also the scope of the ideology of the time plays a role. Paradigms will be paradigms ;-).