Women Were Always Hunters.

What if the whole idea that men were hunters isn't actually true?

Women did the gathering, men did the hunting—right?

Or so the theory goes.

For too long, this theory has been used to support the idea that their are “natural” gender roles and clear divisions of labor between men and women.

But what if that theory is completely wrong?

Nurith Aizenman wrote about the fallacy of the hunter-gatherer gender assumptions for NP…