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It is true
That the men were responsible for the defence of the band
And had control over the weapons
But they did not use the weapons against the women to intimodate and subjucate them in fact
When europeans first came into contact with food hunting peoples in overseas lands
They usually were surprised and shocked by the equality
That food gathering women enjoyed compared to european women
The giissuit missionary paul zone spent a winter of sixteen thirty three to sixteen thirty four with a band of mountaana nascoppy indians on the leabarador peninzlla of eastern canada
The women have great power
Here the john reported honey urged the indian man assert themselves i told him
But he was the master
And that in france women do not rule their husbandanother jseseut father reported the choice of plans of undertakings of journeys of winterings
Lies nearly every instance of the hands of a housewife
It is significant that anthropologist ilenena a leaock found the same equality in sex relations among the mountagna nascopy
When she studied them in nineteen fifty to nineteen fifty one
It was beautiful to see the sense of crup responsibility and the sense of easy autonomy in relationships unburdened centuries of tratraining differential behavior by seacks and status
Not only with their sexy quality among the food gatherers
But there were also strong king ship ties each person had duties toward the other tribal members
And in turn enjoyed write and privileges all all ed each other in the quest for food
Any providing shelter from the elements and defense from their enemies
Some fighting between tribal groups arrose from personal food and from competition for hunting and fishing grounds
But pelilithicsocisociety lacked both the mampower and the resources essential for large scale warfaare
Which did not become possible
Until the rise of agriculture with its greatly increased productivity and correspondenly increased population in short the essence of peilliliic socisocial orananization
Colcooperation
Families and bands were primary mutual aid societies working together in harsh struggle for existence
After observing the daily life of full gathers in various part of the world
Anthorapologist rb lee concludes a truly communal life is often dismissed as a utopbian ideal to be endorsed in theory but unattainable in practice
But the evidence for foiggn peoplees tells us otherwise a sharing way of life is not only possible
But as actually existed in many parts of the world and over long periods of time
Anthropologists recently have focused on the diets
As well as the social institutions of our prehistoric ancestors
Especially because what they aid seems to hold lessons for us
Today
What people eight thousand of years ago can be determining two ways
One is by examining cuporolights or facssilized fiiss
They reveal many things
Such as pollen plant
Cryysts
Feathers
Bones
Hair and x shells
So a corporate provide a capsule record d what pass through a person's digestive tracked millonnia ago
The other way to determine the diet to our food gathering ancestors is to observe what presenday food gatherers eat
Whether they be the operaeies of australia or the count of south afica's color hurry desert
Such observation has revealed that preendent food toththers have a surprisingly abandon a reliable food supply
Even though they are living on undesirable lens
That nobody else wanted one reason for the plenty of food
Is that the food gatherers have an extraordinary knowledge of their home territory and all it's plan an animal life
They cannot read or write
But they can learn and remember the con for example
Remember so much
That they are now using some five hundred different types of plants and animals as food and phmmatical cosmetic toxic another purposes among the insects
They eat and enjoy a beat of rubbcatatpililars
Belovvey turmates and and sickatas
Because of our customs
We do not consider most of these as food
Yet they are nutritious termines for example heard forty five percent cortank and even higher proportion and in dried fish