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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!!
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To: epicure who wrote (2987)2/7/1997 12:24:00 PM
From: Thomas C. White   of 108807
 
Good point. But to add, recent studies have shown that in early human history, basic role of males vis a vis females seems to have largely been to protect them from other males, maybe the occasional wild boar, the "provider" bit seems maybe to have been way overblown. Apparently in many early clan societies, most of the providing was done by the women; the "men on the hunt" bit was for the most part ceremonial and consisted largely of the men going out and having a grand old time sneaking around the waterhole, chasing peccaries and chucking spears to little avail, and finally coming back with little more than a few good stories about the one that got away. Most meat - a rarity - seems to have been obtained by the men stealing it from some hapless cheetah who did all the dirty work (I assume that they fibbed a bit about this too when they returned to the camp triumphant).

This has been substantiated by studies of numerous present-day hunter-gatherer tribes such as in New Guinea and the Amazon, to the effect that it is difficult or impossible to hunt animals with the primitive weapons typical of early man. Most of these tribes actually subsist on the gathering of the females (the men are occasionally enlisted to help in difficult times and they never seem very happy about it).
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