Anthropologists of past decades had a clear picture of how Stone Age people shared their tasks. So it was similar to what happened to them: the man went to work, the woman stayed at home. The Stone Age man went out and shot a buffalo, sometimes maybe even a mammoth. The woman, on the other hand, collected fruit, caught a rabbit now and then and otherwise looked after the children. Such is the division of labor in most contemporary hunter-gatherer cultures, and it was so in ancient times. How else?
Only men hunted in the Stone Age? New finds refute stereotypes – knowledge
