Posted on 10/21/2015 1:53:57 AM PDT by SteveH
Our prehistoric forebears are often portrayed as spear-wielding savages, but the earliest human societies are likely to have been founded on enlightened egalitarian principles, according to scientists.
A study has shown that in contemporary hunter-gatherer tribes, men and women tend to have equal influence on where their group lives and who they live with. The findings challenge the idea that sexual equality is a recent invention, suggesting that it has been the norm for humans for most of our evolutionary history.
Mark Dyble, an anthropologist who led the study at University College London, said: “There is still this wider perception that hunter-gatherers are more macho or male-dominated. We’d argue it was only with the emergence of agriculture, when people could start to accumulate resources, that inequality emerged.”
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ggg ping
......We’d argue it was only with the emergence of agriculture, when people could start to accumulate resources, that inequality emerged.”.....
Sounds like more blame capitalism nonsense.
Even troglodytes understood that if “momma” ain’t happy, ain’t nobody happy.
Men have more muscle; women are the ones who have babies. They certainly had different roles. That’s only common sense. Back then, those who abandoned common sense died, unlike today when they are celebrated.
Slavery, Indentured Servitude and bound apprenticeships have existed since the beginning of humanity. The only equalization of humanity occurred after the resurrection of Christ.
Yes. As usual, everything was perfect until evil white male Europeans ruined it...
Interesting. It looks like they developed a computer model to give them the results they wanted, and the model gave them the results they wanted.
In a world driven by physical strength, women were only the primary achievers in child birth.
The trouble with anthropologists is that they find two pieces of a jigsaw puzzle and draw in the rest with guesses and wishful thinking.
It’s a conjecture of possible explanations, one of which they must choose in order to publish.
Yes. As usual, everything was perfect until evil white male Europeans ruined it...
” men and women tend to have equal influence on where their group lives and who they live with.”
I read pure crap like this and can’t believe that people actually think this is a true researched statement. Stop, and use some very basic common sense: How do they know? Did they actually ask one of the ancients? Hell no, they simply figured that they might have lived that way for they have absolutely no physical proof of the fact.
As a matter of fact, the article smells of the stink of Political Correctness.
And, as we all know, if 'scientists' say something, it must be true...
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SURE they were...
Yes, they were called ‘Adam and Eve’
Considering one of the main driving forces putting woman and men on equal footing in society way after caveman was the advent of the teaching of christianity, but not exclusively...
I’d say their “model” falls in the range of GIGO
When the proverbial SHTF finally, those 90% of us who’ve abandoned common sense won’t make it.
Why is this so hard to believe? It’s true in many cases as it is. No reason to discount females influencing directly what to do, or indirectly. It happens in lower mammals as well.
This is not much different than discovering that Christianity wasn’t that bad for women, nor the USA and its Constitution.
I'm not sure how I feel about that, but feelings do not matter in such situations. The reality is that you're right.
Denial of reality gets so many killed and in harmful, threatening situations.
It is what it is I suppose.
Doesn't sound like equality to me.
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