Our modern understanding of hunter-gatherer societies typically assumes that men went into the wild to do the dangerous work of hunting while women gathered edible plants and took care of the children. But previously, women warriors were considered outliers. This wasn’t the first time we’ve heard about a female big game hunter. This recent discovery challenges common assumptions about the gendered division of labor throughout history and today. The researchers studied isotopes of carbon and nitrogen in the woman’s teeth, which revealed that she ate a typical hunter’s diet of animal meat and plants. It is possible that her tools were a gift or had another symbolic meaning, but it’s more likely that she was a hunter. Her toolkit was extensive, while a nearby male skeleton was buried with only a few hunting tools. She was buried with blades and stone projectiles that were likely the tips of spears, darts or arrows. In addition to using the standard methods for studying ancient bones, they also analyzed the skeleton’s tooth enamel to find out whether it had a male or female version of a protein called amelogenin.Įven if the skeleton was female, how could the researchers be sure that she was a leading hunter? Certainly, the hunting tools were a clue. The archeologists used a new forensic technique to confirm that the bones belonged to a female hunter. After 9,000 years, there wasn’t much left of WMP6 - just fragments of a skull, teeth and partial leg bones, according to the study in ScienceAdvances. The excavation site, called Wilamaya Patjxa, is located at an altitude of 12,877 feet. These ancient bones suggest that women warriors were responsible for hunting down and catching large Andean animals such as vicuña and deer. The high status hunter was, in fact, a young woman. Their study suggests that our early hunter-gatherer ancestors might have structured their society with more gender equality than previously thought. “Everybody was talking about how this was a great chief, a big man,” archaeologist Randy Haas told Science.īut upon closer inspection, the archaeologists realized the bones were lighter and more slender than expected, which made them wonder if the hunter could have been female. The skeleton, which they called WMP6, seemed especially important because it was buried with an extensive kit of stone weapons and blades. Removal of these old growths has the cascading effect of substantially reduced biodiversity, which I hope we can both agree on.In a high plateau of the Andes Mountains in Peru, archaeologists were at an excavation site looking for artifacts when they uncovered the remains of a big game hunter. In regards to this hectares of old growth the ndp seem incapable of protecting, the old growth firs act as a keystone species as some species of moss are only found on old growth, and certain species of owls only make their nests in old growth (I cant remeber if that has anything to do with the moss I mentioned). Not to necessarily back track on my original statement, but I should've flushed out my response a bit more and mentioned that ecosystem success is due entirely to biodiversity, and certainly the removal a keystone species would have dramatic and visual identifiable consequences. with that being said, i think for every story you find which debunks it, i could find an article reinforcing it, so the truth must be somewhere in the middle. Ill be honest when i say i had never heard the story in relation to willows.
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