


December 12, 2008
Hitting the Headlines
By Kim Hiss
Our own Laura Benjamin recently sent me this Denver Post story (Download DenverPost.jpg) which a friend had sent to her. The article comes at the "huntress" topic from an anthropological angle, and therefore seems almost surprised by the fact of women in the woods. I thought it would make a good Friday bonus post follow-up to our discussion about female hunters in the news. Thanks, Laura! -K.H.
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I have to say, I found those articles somewhat offensive. To suggest that the women helping keep the family alive with food is the reason why the species died off is terrible. I can understand the lack of development, but I would hope that there were many more factors that played into them not surviving.Besides, that has nothing to do with what women do in this modern age. It's not the same it was then, when they were spearing animals for food. It is much safer now and easier to protect yourself from harm. That's not even counting the knowledge we now have about safety during pregnancy.
Whomever wrote the article missed a major headline a year ago... they analyzed enough neandarthal skeletons, living sites, etc and found that the reason they went extinct is because the females also hunted. The number of breeding females, those young enough and not injured was too low to sustain their population.http://www.downtoearth.org.in/full6.asp?foldername=20070331&filename=sci&sec_id=12&sid=1http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2007/11/10/stone_age_feminism/?page=2
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I have to say, I found those articles somewhat offensive. To suggest that the women helping keep the family alive with food is the reason why the species died off is terrible. I can understand the lack of development, but I would hope that there were many more factors that played into them not surviving.Besides, that has nothing to do with what women do in this modern age. It's not the same it was then, when they were spearing animals for food. It is much safer now and easier to protect yourself from harm. That's not even counting the knowledge we now have about safety during pregnancy.
Whomever wrote the article missed a major headline a year ago... they analyzed enough neandarthal skeletons, living sites, etc and found that the reason they went extinct is because the females also hunted. The number of breeding females, those young enough and not injured was too low to sustain their population.http://www.downtoearth.org.in/full6.asp?foldername=20070331&filename=sci&sec_id=12&sid=1http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2007/11/10/stone_age_feminism/?page=2
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