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Female foragers sometimes hunt, yet gendered divisions of labor are real: a comment on Anderson et al. (2023) The Myth of Man the Hunter (www.sciencedirect.com)

submitted 7 months ago by Streetlights to c/science

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Tl;dr an undergraduate paper last year claiming females hunt just as often as males got picked up by the media and amplified before it was discovered their analysis was deeply flawed and unreliable. Here several anthropologists present a very gracious rebuttal.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I fins it hard to believe that humans did not realize what we know today where you pretty much gather, set traps, and do hunting of opportunity when alone or in small groups with some formal group hunting that pretty much uses anyone available. I could see more gender division happening with farming and domestication.

[–] Streetlights 9 points 7 months ago

If I can quote the authors:

We caution against ethnographic revisionism that projects Westernized conceptions of labor and its value onto foraging societies.

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