Blam, that is quite interesting! Do you happen to have a reference -- or should I go a-Googling...?
BTW, it's been a while since I thanked you for all your history and prehistory posts -- so Thank You!!!
I don't remember where I read that...so, go googling. Humboldt also said that the women were in charge of the boats and were the ones who retrieved the boats in the kelp forest and brought them to shore for the men. He assumed that was because the women had more fat and could handle the cold better than the men.
That may have been in C.D. Darlington's 1969 book titled: The Evolution Of Man And Society, but, I'm not sure.