The aboriginals in Australia were paleolithic cultures. Cultures that existed before neolithic technologies.
They had no agriculture, no domesticated animals (the dogs were not bred or trained, it seems) no bows, and limited stoneworking, that I can tell.
Yet, the women were essentially slaves owned by the men.
This article is attempting to peddle a version of the noble savage: society was equal before all that nasty technology messed things up.
What a load.
It really takes a liberal arts\social science PhD to write a “learned” paper the argues for setting aside reality.
Women on the average have 50% ( I have seen articles saying 40% & 60%, lets split the difference and go with 50%!) of the strength of men. So we have a non-technical, non-machine age society (maybe the only machine Oz aboriginals have is the occasional lever!) a paleolithic culture where physical strength means survival. The stronger will simply dominate. No surprise there!