9,000-Year-Old Burial of Female Hunter Upends Beliefs About Prehistoric Gender Roles
Conventional thought in anthropology has it that prehistoric hunting was an action reserved for males , while females did the gathering . Turns out this assumption is wrong , according to a provocative new study . She choke new , somewhere between the ages of 17 and 19 . Buried some 9,000 years ago in the Andean highlands of South America , the woman was laid cautiously to roost , her grievous goodness consisting of stone rocket points and animal processing tool ....