"Iss gut,,,now find goats..."
Posted on 11/30/2017 10:11:53 AM PST by BusterDog
Prehistoric women had stronger arms than elite female rowing teams do today thanks to the daily grind of farming life, researchers have revealed, shedding light on their role in early communities.
The study of ancient bones suggests that manual agricultural work had a profound effect on the bodies of women living in central Europe between about the early neolithic and late iron age, from about 5,300BC to AD100.
“We think a lot of what we are seeing is the bone’s response to women grinding grain, which is pretty much seated but using your arms really repetitively many hours a day,” said Dr Alison Macintosh, co-author of the research from the University of Cambridge.
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I thought the comment she is heavy boned was fat shaming.
"Iss gut,,,now find goats..."
The public are forced to pay for this?
“Only the stout shall survive.”
Perhaps it’s partly the rigors of exercise, part Darwinian selection?
How about shirt-ironing and sammich-making?
You try hauling home half a mastadon for supper!
Nice pic of Moochele in her garden!
Women have excelled at small part assembly work because of all that sock darning
In before the pictures of Moochelle!
It’s science. You never know where it will lead.
Besides, it’s an interesting finding.
Our ancient ancestors lead very physical lives. That they were possibly physically in better shape than the majority of us I would not find surprising.
And potatoes.
Part slavic myself...
Agriculture was a hard life that was practiced pretty much as shown in that pic from its beginnings until very recently. My greatgrandmother, bless her heart, was a stout 4’x5’x4’ and strong as an ox. Hoed potatoes like that couple times a week....Her son used a small tractor but she wielded the hoe.
The weak ones died in prehistoric times.
Well hell they had to fight of Dinos and Guys will Yuge Billyclubs:-)
When I was stationed in Aviano Italy you see old old ladies in Black with Yuge baskets on their backs hauling whatever up the hills:-)
‘cept they died before they were 30...
When I made the part environment (including exercise and diet), part selection comment was partly motivated by a Scientific American article I read a couple of years ago. The article described differences in Mexican Indian skeletons from the periods before and during the Mexican takeover.
In comparison with earlier skeletons, those of the Indians enslaved by the conquistadors had two noticeable features: first, heavier bones, which was attributed to heavy forced labor, and second, worse teeth, which was attributed to a diet that had more corn and less meat. Clearly, these factors were environmental, not genetic, because the pre-and post- conquest periods were adjacent in time.
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There are no prehistoric women!
The first woman is well recorded!
But the first humans were much larger, and vastly more intelligent than present humans.
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