Thursday, May 26, 2022
  • Hyderabad
  • Telangana
  • Andhra Pradesh
  • India
  • World
  • Entertainment
  • Science and Tech
  • Sport
  • Business
  • ...
    • NRI
    • View Point
    • cartoon
    • Columns
    • Reviews
    • Education Today
    • Property
    • Videos
    • Lifestyle
E-Paper
  • NRI
  • View Point
  • cartoon
  • Columns
  • Reviews
  • Education Today
  • Property
  • Videos
  • Lifestyle
Home | Features | Prehistoric Women May Have Hunted As Much As Men

Prehistoric women may have hunted as much as men

By PTI
Published: Published Date - 01:41 PM, Thu - 5 November 20
Based on an analysis of the bones and dental proteins, the study found that the hunter was likely female. Based on an analysis of the bones and dental proteins, the study found that the hunter was likely female.

Scientists have unearthed a 9,000-year-old female hunter burial in the Andes Mountains of South America which counters the long-held belief that when early human groups sought food, men hunted and women gathered.

The researchers believe the findings, published in the journal Science Advances, are particularly timely in light of contemporary conversations surrounding gendered labour practices and inequality.

“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’,” Haas said.

“But it’s now clear that sexual division of labour was fundamentally different — likely more equitable — in our species’ deep hunter-gatherer past,” he added. In 2018, during archaeological excavations at a high-altitude site called Wilamaya Patjxa in what is now Peru, the researchers found an early burial that contained a hunting toolkit with projectile points and animal-processing tools.

Based on an analysis of the bones and dental proteins, the study found that the hunter was likely female.

From further examination of records of ancient burials throughout North and South America, the researchers identified 429 individuals from 107 sites. The scientists believe this sample is sufficient to “warrant the conclusion that female participation in early big-game hunting was likely non-trivial”.

This level of participation stands in stark contrast to recent hunter-gatherers, and even farming and capitalist societies, where hunting is a decidedly male activity with low levels of female participation, “certainly under 30 per cent.”

  • Follow Us :
  • Tags
  • female hunter burial
  • Hyderabad
  • Hyderabad News
  • Prehistoric women

Related News

  • Hyderabad: Man jailed for harassing woman

  • Three persons convicted in two different cases by Hyderabad court

  • Modi makes vain bid to project top-performer Telangana in poor light

  • Nithin, Vaishnavi to lead Telangana State throwball teams

  • No one can stop the political sensation India will soon witness: KCR

  • No fish ‘prasadam’ this year in Hyderabad

Latest News

  • Monkeypox may persist in body for 10 weeks: Study

    1 min ago
  • Fake job gang busted in Mancherial

    14 mins ago
  • TSWRCoE-Bellampalli excels in academics

    25 mins ago
  • Karimnagar: Rs 4,687 crore district annual loan plan for 2022-03

    27 mins ago
  • Siddipet: Four including two women dies in road accident

    33 mins ago
  • Modi lowered his image by restricting himself to criticising TRS: Harish Rao

    40 mins ago
  • IPL 2022 Qualifier-2: RCB take on Rajasthan Royals for a place in final

    48 mins ago
  • Khammam: Puvvada to gift iPhones to six KMC corporators who excel in Pattana Pragathi

    49 mins ago

company

  • Home
  • About Us
  • Contact Us

business

  • Subscribe

telangana today

  • Telangana
  • Hyderabad
  • Latest News
  • Entertainment
  • World
  • Andhra Pradesh
  • Science & Tech
  • Sport

follow us

© Copyrights 2022 TELANGANA PUBLICATIONS PVT. LTD. All rights reserved. Powered by Veegam