Women also hunted in hunter-gatherer societies.

2023/06/30 Galarraga Aiestaran, Ana - Elhuyar Zientzia Iturria: Elhuyar aldizkaria

• Giza zientziak
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Analyzing data from 63 hunter-gatherer groups around the world in the last hundred years, it is concluded that women also hunted. The study, published openly in the journal PLOS ONE, has made it clear that the male hunter myth is wrong.

In advance, also in arleological research it has been seen that in different cultures women participated in all types of food gathering activities. In the current study, literature on hunting has been analyzed for the last hundred years and it has been found that in most hunter-gatherer groups (specifically in 50 groups), women and men hunted. Moreover, women used more strategies and forms of power than men and participated in teaching.

Other details about women hunters. For example, they were not usually hunted only when they created the opportunity or had at hand the prey, but they were going to hunt especially, especially the major game. Sometimes they also carried children, even dogs.

According to the authors, the research results help to eliminate erroneous perceptions about the distribution of roles according to the gender of these societies.