Analysis of data from dozens of foraging societies around the world shows that women hunt in at least 79% of these societies, opposing the widespread belief that men exclusively hunt and women exclusively gather. Abigail Anderson of Seattle Pacific University, US, and colleagues presented these findings in the open-access journal PLOS ONE on June 28, 2023.
If persistence hunting was really happening, female bodies might actually be better suited for the task.
Our ancestors probably weren’t eating horses in cool climates though. At least not very often! :-)