In 2020, another team of scientists reported finding a 9,000-year-old female skeleton in the Andes Mountains, buried alongside tools for hunting and dressing big game.
The new study, published Wednesday in the journal PLOS One, consolidates lines of proof that women not only were habitual hunters but also that they hunted using specialized tools and strategies, and even taught children to hunt.Ī recent archaeological discovery set the stage for the investigation. The findings add to a growing body of archaeological and observed evidence that has steadily eroded the long-held notion of strictly gendered roles in so-called hunter-gatherer communities from prehistory to the present, overturning the idea that men were always the hunters and women were exclusively gatherers. They hunted in groups or alone, with their children and with hunting dogs, and wielded weapons such as bows and arrows, knives and nets. But researchers have found that women in foraging societies were often the ones bringing home the bacon (and other prey, too).Īccording to a review of ethnographic records from around the world and spanning the past century, women - young and old alike - hunted large game as well as small animals. Such work was once thought to belong solely to the domain of men. Neanderthals hunted massive elephants that once roamed northern Europe
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