Prehistoric women’s manual labor exceeded that of athletes through the first 5500 years of farming

The Verge ^

[bunkerhill7]

In Iroquois history, the men went out and shot the deer, etc.

Here`s something pretty close to boney women.

“women would also go out into the forest and cut down and carry the wood back to the village so that they may have some sort of heat during the cold winters and also that they were able to cook the food that the men would catch.”

https://www.vaniercollege.qc.ca/tlc/publications/native-circle/native-circle-2003/ashley-thomas3.pdf

“The Women are obliged to prepare the Land, to mow, to plant, and do every Thing; the Men do nothing except hunting, fishing, and going to War against their Enemies”

‘Dutch Minister Describes the Iroquois (1644)’

“[The Rev. John Megapolensis was a minister at the Dutch church in Rensselaerwyck in New Netherlands, and he was a missionary to the Indians.]”
http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bdorsey1/41docs/07-dut.html

[Flick Lives]

Bronto-burgers were heavy.

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Yup!

[tumblindice]

And at the end of the day, they were hotties.

[Bellflower]

Just some man’s fantasy.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks BenLurkin.

• Prehistoric women's arms 'stronger than those of today's elite rowers'

[Rebelbase]

Oh yeah. And they were so well bathed, groomed, primped, and fashionable too!

[Pelham]

“And then university graduates, who spend tens of thousands of dollars for a degree in this nonsense, are amazed and depressed that the only job openings for them are at Starbuck’s.”

You’re not supposed to notice.

[P.O.E.]

Stashu Pandowski

Ask me now no questions
And I tell you now no lies
When I marraige my Sophia she be apple of my eye
She not very much good for pretty
But she work hard all day long
She not very much good for pretty
But she pretty much good for strong.

[21twelve]

“...the Men do nothing except hunting, fishing, and going to War against their Enemies.”

Well - that’s not exactly “nothing”. It obviously is the most natural of things - seeing as the indians (”stone age”) were doing similar things as their stone age neighbors an ocean and 6,000 years away.

And while I wouldn’t suggest that my kids get into paleontology - this kind of research is pretty interesting. I’m not sure what “good” it does - but I’m guessing a lot of science is like that.

[wildbill]

Works for me. I appreciate the fact that the men were off somewhere thinking deep thoughts. like: “Who are we? Where did we come from? What is our purpose”

[Little Bill]

In the 1840’s and 1850’s when my family went West things were different.

For example, everyone walked, none of this family ridding on the drivers seat thing. If a woman had a kid, maybe for a while, then back on your hooves with the kid.

Also no horses, oxen were the thing, horses and plains forage didn't mix.

At last Zion, dad built the house, foraged for wood, cleared the land, while mom did every thing else, garden, clothes, kids, cooking.

My GGrand Mother walked to Utah at the age of three, her mother died before the trip and her father during (along with 139 others). She was going to be given to some people heading to the Oregon some cousins, not uncommon at the time adopted her.

She helped settle two towns, had 11 kids that lived, delivered 220+ kids as a midwife, along with keeping house, doing a garden, washing clothes, and church stuff.

Not bad for a +/- 5 foot Scot, lived to be 86.

[SunkenCiv]

That's a great account! My great-grands worked and toiled, really put me to shame. But that's the natural consequence, the legacy, of their hard work. Thank you, all my ancestors.