Woman the Hunter

[The Hammer]

Women Hunt As Often As Men In Many Hunter-Gatherer Societies—Despite Age-Old Stereotypes, Study Finds

In over 79% of modern foraging societies, women also hunt. Man the hunter is a myth.

 

[The Hammer]

"The authors of the study—published by the Public Library of Science—looked into data from previous researchers on 63 living societies across the world that still practice hunting and gathering, then investigated how women participated in the hunting in various societies, what they hunted and what tools they used."

 

[Heyo]

Women Hunt As Often As Men In Many Hunter-Gatherer Societies—Despite Age-Old Stereotypes, Study Finds

In over 79% of modern foraging societies, women also hunt. Man the hunter is a myth.

The other myth that is stubbornly supported by some historians and archaeologists is that women weren't warriors.

 

[The Hammer]

The other myth that is stubbornly supported by some historians and archaeologists is that women weren't warriors.

That's changing.

 

[Heyo]

That's changing.

Yes, apparently together with the myth that women didn't hunt. But it is changing slowly. Not everyone got the memo, yet.

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

I don't think it's safe to assume that modern hunter-gatherers are necessarily reflective of pre-historic ones. Just a thought.

 

[Heyo]

I don't think it's safe to assume that modern hunter-gatherers are necessarily reflective of pre-historic ones. Just a thought.

Scientists assume consistency until disproved, not the other way around.
And this study confirms the hypothesis that women did hunt as well as men in prehistoric hunter-gatherer tribes based on injuries typical of hunting accidents (especially with big game).

 

[Twilight Hue]

Women Hunt As Often As Men In Many Hunter-Gatherer Societies—Despite Age-Old Stereotypes, Study Finds

In over 79% of modern foraging societies, women also hunt. Man the hunter is a myth.

There were women hunters even in the 40s and 50s. Big game as much as small.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

Women Hunt As Often As Men In Many Hunter-Gatherer Societies—Despite Age-Old Stereotypes, Study Finds

In over 79% of modern foraging societies, women also hunt. Man the hunter is a myth.

Too many of us thats "well duhhh."
To some others thats just heritical shattering of the moral fabric to not enforce r8gid and clear gender norms.