Cambridge University researchers found that prehistoric females may have been a whole lot tougher than today's strongest athletes. When you picture women of the prehistoric era, you probably envision ...

Prehistoric women frequently engaged in hunting as much as men and their anatomy also made them better suited for it, suggests a new review of studies. For decades, historians and anthropologists have ...

Newly published studies suggest that maybe women didn’t actually spend all of their time in the kitchen back in the day — as people believed for so long. Cara Ocobock, an assistant professor in the ...

When it comes to hunting down a sabre-tooth tiger or slaying a woolly mammoth, the fairer sex has the upper hand, according to two new studies. It has long been claimed that in prehistoric times men ...

It's a familiar story to many of us: In prehistoric times, men were hunters and women were gatherers. Women were not physically capable of hunting because their anatomy was different from men. And ...

When Cara Ocobock was a young child, she often wondered at the images in movies, books, comics and cartoons portraying prehistoric men and women as such: “man the hunter” with spear in hand, ...

In small-group, subsistence living, it makes sense for everyone to do lots of jobs. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Prehistoric ...

A 12,000-year-old clay figurine unearthed in northern Israel, depicting a woman and a goose, is the earliest known ...

A prehistoric human skeleton buried alongside a number of wild animal remains may represent the burial of a "shaman" who died around 12,000 years ago, a study has proposed. The burial was excavated in ...

A 12,000-year-old clay figurine recovered by archaeologists in Israel represents the earliest known depiction of human-animal ...