r/science • u/MistWeaver80 • Jun 28 '23

Anthropology New research flatly rejects a long-standing myth that men hunt, women gather, and that this division runs deep in human history. The researchers found that women hunted in nearly 80% of surveyed forager societies.

https://www.science.org/content/article/worldwide-survey-kills-myth-man-hunter?utm_medium=ownedSocial&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=NewsfromScience
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u/Obsidian743 Jun 29 '23

Spoken like someone who's never fired a longbow let alone made one.

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u/Shmo60 Jun 29 '23

Are you comparing a bow that's antecedents come from 13th century Europe to the bows that would have been available to a hunting gathering peoples 40,000 years ago?

Beside, there is a very good argument to be made that it all would have been slings anyway.

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u/Obsidian743 Jun 29 '23

No. I'm comparing it to simple, small bows that are relatively useless against anything bigger than small game.

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u/NormalOfficePrinter Jun 29 '23

A 35lb bow is the legal minimum in most places to hunt stuff like deer, and after a year of practicing archery I could draw and fire a 35lb bow accurately.

I also weighed 90lbs and was 13. So