But researchers have found that women in foraging societies were often the ones ... notion of strictly gendered roles in so-called hunter-gatherer communities from prehistory to the present ...

Many hunter-gatherer cultures have disappeared over the millennia, but some of the societies mentioned in the paper include the Tiwi people of Australia, the Hadza of northern Tanzania ...

The researchers also noted that hunter–gatherer societies have tended to emphasize physical fitness, likely because it is needed to survive. Thus, in addition to hunting animals or gathering ...

Anthropologists call societies that do not have ranks egalitarian ... These kinds of groups have been called hunter-gatherers, but a more accurate name might be foragers: they make their living ...

Historically, there are examples of women hunting in hunter-gatherer societies, although, according to the anthropological record, it's typically only small game that they bring home while gathering.

"Perhaps complex social boundaries and identities persisted, even as most of our species moved toward agricultural societies," she said. One aspect of the complexity of hunter-gatherer social ...

Hunter-gatherers returned from the hunt with food they shared with all, equally. For the most part, hunter-gather societies were more egalitarian than agrarian societies. In the absence of ...

Another point where work in hunter-gatherer societies differs from our modern efforts is the degree to which the intensity of work varies over time. A 2019 paper in Nature Human Behavior ...