'[W]omen have always been able to hunt and have in fact hunted.” ScienceMagArchives
When archaeologists discovered the bones of a 9000-year-old human in a burial pit high in the Andes, they were impressed by a tool kit of 20 stone projectile points and blades stacked neatly by the person's side. All signs pointed to the discovery of a high-status hunter."Everybody was talking about how this was a great chief, a big man," says archaeologist Randy Haas of the University of California , Davis.
Now, the researchers report that the burial was indeed that of a female, challenging the long-standing"man the hunter" hypothesis. Her existence led them to reexamine reports of other ancient burials in the Americas, and they found 10 additional women buried with projectile points who may also have been hunters.
Haas and his team, including local Aymara colleagues, weren't intending to study female hunters. They discovered the fossilized remains of six individuals in burial pits at the archaeological site of Wilamaya Patjxa at 3925 meters' altitude on the windswept altiplano of southern Peru. Two people were buried with stone tools.
Others find the evidence of a female hunter convincing."It's a smoking gun," says archaeologist Meg Conkey of UC Berkeley, who was not part of the study."But skeptics might say it's a one-off."
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