(The Hill) — Popular depictions of prehistoric hunts tend to show ancient humans hurling their spears into mammoths and mastodons. But such a technique would have been less than useless — leaving a ...

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Popular depictions of prehistoric hunts tend to show ancient humans hurling their spears into mammoths and mastodons. But such a technique would have been less than useless — leaving a hunter with no ...

It's a familiar story to many of us: In prehistoric times, men were hunters and women were gatherers. Women were not physically capable of hunting because their anatomy was different from men. And ...

ONTARIO, CANADA—Science Magazine reports that archaeologist Eugène Morin of Trent University, behavioral ecologist Bruce Winterhalder of University of California, Davis, and their colleagues reviewed ...

The idea that, in prehistoric times, males were hunters and females were gatherers is deeply embedded in our understanding of ancient history. It has served as a basis for anthropological research for ...

Newly published studies suggest that maybe women didn’t actually spend all of their time in the kitchen back in the day — as people believed for so long. Cara Ocobock, an assistant professor in the ...