‘Man, the hunter’? Archaeologists’ assumptions about gender roles in early humans ignore a dirty but potentially crucial part of the original ‘paleo diet’
One of the most common stereotypes about the human past is that men hunted while women gathered. The story goes that this gender division of labor would have provided the meat and plant foods that people needed to survive. That characterization of our time as a species dependent solely on wild foods—before humans began domesticating … Read more