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[QUOTE]Originally posted by BrandonP: [QB] I think the main reason you have certain gender roles in cultures around the world is because of the burdens of pregnancy and nursing that many women would have experienced, especially in pre-contraceptive times where almost any sexual intercourse between men and women would lead to babies. I imagine fighting in a war would be tough if you're bearing a child. That said, I do think gender relations would have been more egalitarian the further back in time you went. There's some recently uncovered archaeological evidence that even the "men hunt, women gather" dynamic you see in modern foragers may have been a recent, post-Paleolithic development. [URL=https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abd0310]Female hunters of the early Americas[/URL] [QUOTE]Sexual division of labor with females as gatherers and males as hunters is a major empirical regularity of hunter-gatherer ethnography, suggesting an ancestral behavioral pattern. We present an archeological discovery and meta-analysis that challenge the man-the-hunter hypothesis. Excavations at the Andean highland site of Wilamaya Patjxa reveal a 9000-year-old human burial (WMP6) associated with a hunting toolkit of stone projectile points and animal processing tools. Osteological, proteomic, and isotopic analyses indicate that this early hunter was a young adult female who subsisted on terrestrial plants and animals. [qb]Analysis of Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene burial practices throughout the Americas situate WMP6 as the earliest and most secure hunter burial in a sample that includes 10 other females in statistical parity with early male hunter burials. The findings are consistent with nongendered labor practices in which early hunter-gatherer females were big-game hunters.[/qb][/QUOTE] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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