Lazy justifications for male sexual predatory behaviour sometimes get pseudo-scientific and claim, “Well men are hunters, so they can’t help but go after the game…” Quite apart from viewing women as “game”, this is founded in assumptions that aren’t actually true.
“An archaeological discovery and analysis of early burial practices overturns the long-held ‘man-the-hunter’ hypothesis,” said Randy Haas, assistant professor of anthropology and the lead author of the study, “Female Hunters of the Early Americas,” published in Science Advances.
“We believe that these findings are particularly timely in light of contemporary conversations surrounding gendered labour practices and inequality,” he added. “Labour practices among recent hunter-gatherer societies are highly gendered, which might lead some to believe that sexist inequalities in things like pay or rank are somehow ‘natural.’ But it’s now clear that sexual division of labour was fundamentally different—likely more equitable—in our species’ deep hunter-gatherer past.”
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