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ismnotwasm

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5. There's a whole thing about the diversity of roles in anthropology
Mon Nov 9, 2020, 02:24 PM
Nov 2020

The argument that hunters didn’t sustain the family/band unit, it was the gathering and the hearth keepers if you will. Of course women hunted is how I think, if human traveled small bands, what happened if their make hunters were sick or incapacitated? It was a dangerous world with dangerous prey.

The big question of course, is why do women live past menopause if “breeding” is the only purpose? Nobody quite knows, but I will always love the grandmother theory

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