Note: I am talking about ancient Hunter gathers not the modern Hunter gathers because they are not a view into the past.
I feel like Hunter gathers are more diverse than we think.
Note: I am talking about ancient Hunter gathers not the modern Hunter gathers because they are not a view into the past.
I feel like Hunter gathers are more diverse than we think.
Well, we don't know all that much, but you'd have to have a huge amount of evidence to even suggest that men exclusively stuck to hunting and women to gathering over hundreds of thousands of years of prehistory. And even then, you'd probably have to start throwing in exceptions (what about trapping small game?).
As with all things, it likely varied across space and time. I wonder if it was more segregated where there was a seasonal tradition of mid to long hunting excursions, especially within a ritualistic context.
In my opinion I feel like Humans tried every type of gender roles possible at least one time in past. I don’t believe a “natural default” of how humans organized.
It's a big mathematical space, but most of the main novel ground is probably already covered.
Across most of Turtle Island you see cultural commonalities of farming being typical women's work and hunting being typical men's work. From the Southwest to the Northeast, land stewardship is matrilineal.