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Woman the hunter: Ancient Andean remains challenge old ideas of who speared big game (www.science.org)

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Early hunting was “gender neutral,” archaeologists suggest

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Some humans were or are hunter-gatherers. This doesn't imply a specific societal model like the one you describe above.

The "man the hunter hypothesis" is just a product of the eurocentric narrative (hierarchical, patriarchal, colonialist to name a few of its characteristics). As it is mentioned in the article:

...the idea that all hunters were male has been bolstered by studies of the few present-day groups of hunter gatherers such as the Hadza of Tanzania and San of southern Africa.

By the way there are many more modern hunter-gatherer groups.

To my understanding, reality has been much more nuanced than the "man the hunter hypothesis".

In different times and different geographical places some hunter-gatherers were hierarchical, some egalitarian, some changed depending on the season, some changed because of colonialism, some were matrilineal, some matriarchal, some patriarchal or a combination of those. And as some say, change is the constant.

I hope these shed some light on this conversation.