This article is about the Paleolithic era, before agriculture was developed. Also, hoe vs plow agriculture tended to do with the availability of domesticated d

This article is about the Paleolithic era, before agriculture was developed. Also, hoe vs plow agriculture tended to do with the availability of domesticated draft animals, not the hardness of the soil. The first plows appeared after oxen were domesticated in Mesopotamia. This did have an effect on the gender distribution of agriculture, not because women couldn't use hoes, but because they couldn't handle plows driven by draft animals.