It's common for puberty to be only one of multiple criteria for 'adulthood' in modern forager societies. Take an example from many Australian aboriginals, where

It's common for puberty to be only one of multiple criteria for 'adulthood' in modern forager societies. Take an example from many Australian aboriginals, where men in many groups were sometimes limited from full marriage rights until their 30s. That's not the point of this article though. There were children and they were doing things. This article is about how our modern worldviews influence what we can see in the archeological record.