For decades, it was pretty much just assumed that men hunted and women gathered in pre-agricultural societies but in a recent analysis of humans remains, “they found about half of the time people buried with hunting tools were female”.
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For decades, it was pretty much just assumed that men hunted and women gathered in pre-agricultural societies but in a recent analysis of humans remains, “they found about half of the time people buried with hunting tools were female”.
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