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Forget ‘Man the Hunter’ – physiological and archaeological evidence rewrites assumptions about a gendered division of labor in prehistoric times

  • Written by Sarah Lacy, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Delaware
imageIn small-group, subsistence living, it makes sense for everyone to do lots of jobs.gorodenkoff/iStock via Getty Images Plus

Prehistoric men hunted; prehistoric women gathered. At least this is the standard narrative written by and about men to the exclusion of women.

The idea of “Man the Hunter” runs deep within anthropology, convincing...

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