Since women did more of the gathering while the men were hunting, it is likely they made a significant contribution to the invention of basic gardening/agriculture. This differences in role I believe several things I have noticed in modern male/female behavior and skills.
Women tend to chatter more, likely from millennia of siting and working together in caves while the men were off hunting and keeping quiet to not scare the game.
Men are better at algebra which is abstract as is hunting moving quarry. women may be better at geometry which deals with fixed shapes and comparisons.
Women do better at night work as women always had to wake up several times a night to nurse their infants. In the first months an infant wants to nurse every 3 or 4 hours. Failure to wake quickly and feed the fussing infant can lead to loud crying which would attract dangerous animals, not to mention waking the men and ruining their next day’s hunt.
Have you noticed these tendencies in your relationships?
Women wove and that means geometry and counting skills.
First to go beyond fingers and toes.
Relationships, heh, good one. I just put the stepladder away after changing my bare lightbulb. ;^)
Women are naturally more alert to higher pitched sounds, which helps wake them when the baby cries. Men tend to catnap, and tend to be nocturnal snackers. Socially, in the modern world, this causes problems, because men don’t need to keep watch at the mouth of the cave all night, everyone tends to be up during daylight hours. This leads to men wanting sex in the morning and women wanting sex at bedtime.
I think a lot of important early practices, discoveries, inventions, and arts (including cave paintings, sculpture, watercraft, the wheel, and fire) came from the kids, who had the most free time on their hands, natural curiousity, and the dirty-double-dog-dare.
The most complicated common and very ancient food may be leavened bread. That had to have resulted from the observation of accidental or naturally occurring events.