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work activities were more gender-blind than thought during prehistoric times, Edwards theorized.

For instance, in a nearby women's hut, researchers found a bowl with ancient popcorn kernels and a crude TV remote set to Monday Night Football.

In other words, what a crock (sorry!). To the university set, copulation outside of marriage is a routine idea, but sex is the ultimate scandal.

12 posted on 12/14/2007 11:02:13 AM PST by SamuraiScot
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work activities were more gender-blind than thought during prehistoric times, Edwards theorized.

Has this idiot ever studied American Plains Indian Culture, it was very specialized.

16 posted on 12/14/2007 11:20:46 AM PST by Little Bill (Welcome to the Newly Socialist State of New Hampshire)
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“work activities were more gender-blind than thought during prehistoric times, Edwards theorized.”

I’d guess that this is the product of the late tendency toward feminized PC thinking on the part of a lot of scientists.

These ancient men were half-ass wounding dinner and then chasing it for acres and miles AND THEN they were sweeping out the hut when they got home as well?

If I put myself in the place of the ancient men I can tell you I would chase a wounded gazelle just once before I started looking at other methods such as hobbling it on the spot with something and sweeping in for a death blow, or just making damn sure that inside of the expectable range the spearchuckers were deadly.

I wonder why it doesn’t occur to the scientists that it is damn likely that the weapon wielders and spearchuckers were probably pretty badass in the execution of their specialty. Ever seen the results of a 19th century harpooner flinging a shaft?

Today our best athletes are in pro sports but back then they were hunting food. I realize scientists need indications of a thing to speculate but more and more I hear them saying things that sound more PC than intuitive. (And I grew up read Natn'l Geo. religiously)

17 posted on 12/14/2007 1:09:21 PM PST by TalBlack
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