A new study rebukes notion that only men were hunters in ancient times. It found little evidence to support the idea that roles were assigned specifically to each sex. Women were not only physically capable of being hunters, but there is little evidence to support that they were not hunting.
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Posted in r/science by u/mvea • 1,198 points and 306 comments

They're mostly getting dunked on, but they're wriggling around all over the thread raging about science being made "political."

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  • iByteABit [comrade/them]
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    8 months ago

    At this point it's nothing revolutionary, there are multiple books saying the same. As always indigenous people and hunter gatherers are preferred to be seen as simplistic beings because admitting the opposite would quickly break quite a few narratives.

    People are complex beings and always have been, there were many different ways that they formed their societies differing from group to group. Some had equality of genders, some were patriarchal, some matriarchal. It's intuitive if you don't believe in those bullshit distinctions in the first place.