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The paper reviews other papers about various societies and reports the percentage of them in which women hunt in various way (e.g. broken down by size of game).
by OscarCunningham 3y ago
The paper reviews other papers about various societies and reports the percentage of them in which women hunt in various way (e.g. broken down by size of game). It reports no data on male hunting. So I think it's dishonest of science.org to say the following.
> These data flatly reject a long-standing myth that men hunt, women gather, and that this division runs deep in human history.
It could easily be consistent with these data that men usually hunt much more than women.
- jljljl 3y agoThe paper doesn’t make a statement about the frequency or prevalence of women hunting, and it does describe different hunting behaviors and patterns between men and women in the discussion. I think the paper’s goal is not to say women hunted as frequently as men, but to disprove the idea that there was a sharp and rigid division of labor in subsistence societies.
- OscarCunningham 3y agoYeah, I'm disageeing with the reporting of it more than the paper itself.