The strong arms of Prehistoric women

[packman]

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The arm bones of women who lived 7,000 years ago show an incredible level of strength - even higher than today's elite athletes. That's according to a first-ever study comparing prehistoric bones to those of living people.

The finding suggests a revision of history - the everyday lives of prehistoric women were filled with hard manual labour, rather than just sitting at home doing lighter domestic tasks while the men slogged.


https://www.sciencealert.com/prehistoric-women-stronger-than-elite-rowers-manual-labour-anthropology

[bobbieinok]

1. I learned women worked the fields and crops, men hunted.

And field work is very hard work. The idea women sat at home doing domestic work is applying Victorian era views of the proper role of middle-class women. Clearly lower class women have always worked, even in Victorian era. See domestic servants, mine workers (women reported to have pulled carts, often nearly nude to get thru narrow spots).