Females reveal that ancient gender roles may not be what we were taught, as 30-50% of hunter bodies are recognized to be female
What you think you know about ancient human history may be wrong. A significant number of prehistoric hunters may have actually been women.with men men only What was used for hunting has been questioned for decades. However, it is relatively recent that the latest information about prehistoric gender roles and division of labor began to spread to the public.
TikTok video creator @Allie_202_ talked about on the internet After sharing This discovery with her viewers. Like most of her others, Allie was shocked to learn that prehistoric women were also hunting. She pointed out how our biases affect our perceptions, even in a field of study like archeology that should be objective. Check out the cool video and thoughts, and read how the internet reacted to her discovery.
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Ally went viral on TikTok after sharing what she recently learned that many ancient hunters may have been women
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“The first thing we learn about early human history is that men were once hunters and women were gatherers.”
“So tell me why I was 10 today when I learned that 30-50% of hunters may have been female all along.”
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“Flashback to 2021, researchers at my university realized that the body they had just exhumed was that of a woman, and said, ‘That’s amazing. We should look into it.’ A study of data from 400 burial sites found that of the 27 hunters exhumed, 11 were women. Clearly for the general public, this seemed like big news.
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At the same time, people were on TV saying, “Stop the horses. Feminist-minded archaeologists have known this for a very long time, but you weren’t listening.”
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‘This is the deal. When it comes to archeology and ancient history, we generally play a bit of a guessing game all the time. I’m not going to sit here and pretend I know for sure if a woman is a hunter. What I can say with sociological certainty is that when we evaluate science, we are constantly imprinting our own biases into the data we see. Also, women may have been hunters all along, but that information may have passed over their heads.
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You can watch Ally’s full video here
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Most people still cling to the belief that in prehistoric times all women were gatherers and only men hunted. was the general idea. But this seems like a simplistic view of the past. It makes sense to put it in the school history book, but that’s not the whole picture. The reality was perhaps more nuanced.
University of California archaeologist Randall Haas and his team made a startling discovery in 2018 while excavating a 9,000-year-old burial in the Andes Mountains of Peru.
The person was buried with a hunter’s stone tool. “He must have been a really great hunter and a very important figure in society.” Haas said National Geographic revealed that at the time he and his colleagues assumed the hunter was male.
They were surprised when a closer examination of the bones revealed that they most likely belonged to a woman. This was no special case either.
After this discovery, a review of previously investigated burials across the Americas revealed that between 30 and 50% of big game hunters may have been female.
Pamela Geller, an archaeologist at the University of Miami, told National Geographic: and stiff.
She continues:
Perhaps in reality, big game hunting required the participation of as many skilled, healthy, capable adults as possible. Regardless of gender. Kathleen Sterling, an archaeologist at Binghamton University, noted that mothers would be more likely to help out during big hunts after their children were weaned. You can even help out with the hunt while your pup is still breastfeeding.
So prehistoric communities were much more flexible and adaptable than we learned in elementary school. In a relatively low-tech era of history, most people should be willing to help if needed. It’s hard to imagine a high degree of specialization of skills in a small community. So there is more emphasis on egalitarianism than many assumed.
University of Calgary pointed out “Ancient Female Hunters Are an Expectation, Not a Surprise” However, not all prehistoric communities had female hunters. “Women are fully capable of hunting, but in most hunter-gatherer societies, they don’t hunt very often.”
Here’s how some TikTok users reacted to the revelation that prehistoric women were also hunting
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