A woman's place? Out hunting, study finds


By Agency
  • Family
  • Thursday, 05 Nov 2020

The new study adds to a body of literature that supports the contention that modern gender constructs do not reflect past ones. Photo: Pixabay

A new study says a woman's place might never have been at home to begin with.

Scientists said that they had discovered the 9,000-year-old remains of a young woman in the Peruvian Andes alongside a well-stocked big game hunting toolkit.

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