GENDER PREHISTORY.

GENDER; PALEOLITHIC Period; NEANDERTHALS; INFANT weaning; TANNING (Hides & skins)

The article "Woman the Hunter" challenges the popular belief that early human societies had a division of labor where males hunted and provided while females took care of children and domestic duties. The authors present evidence of female hunters among early human communities, suggesting that this division of labor was incorrect. However, there is limited archaeological evidence of child care in the Paleolithic era, making it difficult to determine if early male humans also tended to children and domestic duties. The authors suggest that it is plausible that Paleolithic males contributed to child care in their small groups, and there is a movement in the field to recognize the importance of children and child care in paleoanthropology and archaeology. [Extracted from the article]

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