Women were much more than just the gatherers.
spear thrower is turning the idea of women as passive gatherers who left the hunting to men on its head.
The atlatl, a handheld, rod-shaped device that uses leverage to launch a dart, was a major step forward in human technological innovation duringNow, after years of testing by modern humans, researchers suggest it functioned as an ‘equalizer’, enabling women and men to hunt just as effectively compared to when using a javelin alone.
However, evidence from the arrival of the atlatl – which may have been invented by women – suggests equality was alive and well in the Stone Age. ‘Many people tend to view women in the past as passive and that only males were hunters, but increasingly that does not seem to be the case,’ said lead author Dr Michelle Bebber, from Kent State University, Ohio.‘Indeed, and perhaps most importantly, there seems to be a growing consilience among different fields – archaeology, ethnography, and now modern experiments – that women were likely active and successful hunters of game, big and small.
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