Men are hunters, women are gatherers. That was the assumption. A new study upends it.

Photo caption: A group of young women from the Awa people in Brazil hold their bows and arrows as they return from a hunt. A new reexamination of ethnographic studies finds female hunters are common in hunter-gatherer societies. Photo credit: Scott Wallace / Getty Images. Article by Nurith Aizenman. NPR – July 1, 2023.

For decades, scientists have believed that early humans had a division of labor: Men generally did the hunting and women did the gathering. And this view hasn’t been limited to academics. It’s often been used to make the case that men and women today should stick to the supposedly “natural” roles that early human society reveals. […]

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