The Environmental Atheist

The Philadelphia Enquirer has an interesting article that explores something I mentioned the other day about the division of labour between prehistoric/pre-agricultural hominids. I got the gist from the article that our flawed notion of the macho male hunter vs the more feminine female gatherer may have to do with the embarrassment about our ancestors use of pre-slaughtered game. It turns out that we may have been merely scavengers. The image of the big game hunter, man against beast, spear against claw, seems to be a more modern fixation. That's not to say that we didn't hunt like that, but it likely wasn't a primary pursuit.

Link from the news feed at Butterflies and Wheels.

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