Women Have Played Major Role In History - - From The Start

Eureka Alert ^ | 2-5-2007 | Andrea Lynn

[blam]

GGG Ping.

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"female humans have been the chief engine in the unprecedented high level of human sociability; were the inventors of the most useful of tools – called the String Revolution; have shared equally in the provision of food for human societies; almost certainly drove the human invention of language; and were the ones who created agriculture."

Chicks. Is there anything they can’t do?

[Always Right]

Eve certainly did.

[Centurion2000]

Women have played major role in history -- from the start, authors assert

Yep, they have. Thanks Eve, for screwing up a good deal for everyone else.

[cripplecreek]

I think the idea of women as the weaker sex is a relatively recent development in human history.

[Always Right]

According to arab, women, and black history, the evil white man isn't responsible for anything good.

[SF Republican]

many of these stone babes Interesting term considering the article.

[HitmanLV]

...and then came Maude.

[Lancey Howard]

[Tanniker Smith]

Women have played major role in history -- from the start, authors assert

Well, Eve, I'll grant you, but the schools seem to have a problem with her.

[Lancey Howard]

It was women who gave birth to all those men who walked on the moon.
God bless the women!

[Pietro]

this falls into the Lincoln was gay camp of historic revisionism. The only way to get noticed is to 'debunk" some long held opinion. The validity of the argument is secondary to the sensationalism of the position.

[IronJack]

A whole lot of thunder but not much rain. But then what would you expect from a revisionist cloud?

Come to think of it, hasn't this revisionist thing been just about done to death? I mean, does anybody really believe this kind of filtered, fictionalized claptrap anymore?

[HairOfTheDog]

Still with the blame over the apple thing?

Sheesh... and guys say women hold grudges a long time. ;~)

[Jagman]

Writing about the theoretical possibility of inbreeding between "archaic folk" and modern humans, they write: "Modern humans will copulate with virtually anything, even barrel cacti, Meso one can assume that nothing with two legs would have been out of bounds."

Methinks barrel cacti might be preferable to these two slatterns.

[Cogadh na Sith]

It turns out that "there is no evidence of Upper Paleolithic assemblages of enough hunters – 40 or so – to take down a mammoth, much less the number needed to wipe out a herd. Only the foolhardiest would attempt to kill an animal that stands 14 feet high and has a notoriously bad temper when annoyed."

That story is bull. The Sword Hunters of the Hamran Arabs as documented by Sir Samuel White Baker would hunt elephants and kill them with two blows--1 to cut the tendons in the back leg and another across the trunk to bleed it to death.

I have no doubt ancient hunters were as effective even with flint tools.

Futhermore, in the Bushman tribes cited in the article, groups of men go off for days at a time to hunt large game in contradiction to this PC revisionist feminist theory.

Besides, if they were so into equality, how come they don't demand to be called "Bushpeople". Hmmmmmmm?

It's just more academics projecting their own current fad views on the past--same as always. No reason to suspect this is any more correct.

[The Blitherer]

not simply baby-machines who tended to the children, rustled up roots, collected nuts and berries and relied on macho male hunters to bring home the bacon.

How unenlightened, to demean such a high calling as child-bearing and raising. I am deeply insulted.

[rjp2005]

"That it was almost surely women who did most of this fine weaving and basketry is one matter to which the ethnographic record appears to be a reliable guide."

This is the great new discovery of these new archaeologists? This is the info the "male-dominated" field of archaeology has ignored? C'mon - we already know this. And the language development - we know that.

[BillM]

It would seem to me that men were taking care of the present while mothers were building the future!

Those are both equally important over the run of history.