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You've Been Lied to About Cavewomen.

Jackdaw

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Edit: Men are not 6x stronger than women! Many apologies, I meant to say the absolute upper body strength of women is about 52% to 55% that of men! 6x implies 600%! Wild.

This video is 100% organic and supported by years of personal research. I am not an anthropologist but I am deeply passionate about this topic. All sources are linked below.

TIMESTAMPS:
[0:00] Intro
[1:02] How We're Different from Other Primates
[3:53] Reverse Dominance Hierarchy
[7:10] The Man the Hunter Symposium
[9:01] Gathering
[10:32] Hunting
[30:08] What Women Did
[14:45] Why are we Patriarchal Now?
[20:13] Outro

SOURCES:

Human Species & Homo Naledi:
How Many Human Species Have Existed? LiveScience.
https://www.livescience.com/how-many-...

Homo Naledi. Smithsonian Human Origins.
https://humanorigins.si.edu/evidence/...

Primate Behavior & Sexual Dimorphism:
Female Bonobos Fight Male Aggression. National Geographic.
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/an...

Chimpanzee Social Hierarchy. Jane Goodall Institute.
https://news.janegoodall.org/2018/07/...

Bonobos Join Chimps as Closest Human Relatives. Science.
https://www.science.org/content/artic...

Reverse Dominance Hierarchy:
Boehm, Christopher. Hierarchy in the Forest: The Evolution of Egalitarian Behavior. Harvard University Press, 1999.
https://opac.uma.ac.id/repository/067...

Man the Hunter Symposium:
The Man the Hunter Myth Won't Go Away. Noema Magazine.
https://www.noemamag.com/the-man-the-...

Lee, Richard B. and Irven DeVore, editors. Man the Hunter. Aldine, 1968. Internet Archive.
https://archive.org/details/ManTheHunter

Hunter-Gatherer. EBSCO Research Starters.
https://www.ebsco.com/research-starte...

Neanderthal Dental Plaque & Medicinal Plants:
Secrets from Neanderthal Tooth Plaque. The Scientist.
https://www.the-scientist.com/secrets...

Gathering & Caloric Contribution:
Sear, Rebecca and Ruth Mace. "Who Keeps Children Alive? A Review of the Effects of Kin on Child Survival." Evolution and Human Behavior 29 (2008).
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science...

Female Hunters & Archaeological Evidence:
Haas, Randall et al. "Female Hunters of the Early Americas." Science Advances 6, no. 45 (2020).
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...

Woman the Hunter: Ancient Andean Remains Challenge Old Ideas About Who Speared Big Game. Science.
https://www.science.org/content/artic...

Lacy, Sarah and Cara Ocobock. "The Claim That Women Are Not Cut Out for Arduous Activities Is Not Supported by Science." American Anthropologist (2023).
https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wi...

Agricultural Revolution & Origins of Patriarchy:

Plough Agriculture Hypothesis:
Alesina, Alberto, Paola Giuliano and Nathan Nunn. "On the Origins of Gender Roles: Women and the Plough." Quarterly Journal of Economics 128, no. 2 (2013): 469-530.
https://economics.northwestern.edu/do...

Property & Inheritance:
Engels, Friedrich. The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State. 1884.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx...

Cooperative Breeding & Alloparenting:
Hrdy, Sarah Blaffer. Mothers and Others: The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding. Harvard University Press, 2009.
https://primate.uchicago.edu/2000AB.pdf

Population Density & Warfare:
Bowles, Samuel. "Did Warfare Among Ancestral Hunter-Gatherers Affect the Evolution of Human Social Behaviors?" Science 324 (2009): 1293-1298.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...

Caloric Surplus & State Formation:
Scott, James C. Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States. Yale University Press, 2017.
https://theanarchistlibrary.org/libra...

MEDIA CREDITS:

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https://pixabay.com

Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/b...

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20 Comments

@pooolB 3 months ago

It's weirdly comforting to know that my hatred of billionaires is a natural human instinct passed down from generations and generations of our ancestors collectively getting rid of greedy bullies.

@dustindusterooni3601 4 months ago

I hate the way the aggressive and dominant behavior is always framed as "primal" as if that is what got us to where we are today. Empathy is primal!

@laineyyea 4 months ago

My brain gained a wrinkle

@followthemoney9072 2 months ago

Anyone who thinks foraging is a mindless task will very quickly fuck around and find out.

@ChickenLordThe 4 months ago (edited)

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Update: I spoke too soon…

@raptorsedge6866 4 months ago

When me think of cave woman, me think of throw spear at mammoth. When me think of cave man, me think of throw spear at mammoth. When me think of cave human, me think of throw spear at mammoth.

@Solar_Kit-73554 3 months ago

i wasnt lied to about cavewomen, i wasnt TOLD about cavewomen!!

@ChewyWolf64 3 months ago

Yo I was High asf going into this video but the topic is so interesting that I've genuinely sobered up

@ravilchai 3 months ago

Our species has become so overwhelmingly sheltered, that scientists assume that foraging is an easy work

@SturdyButtress 3 months ago

Persistence hunting sounds absolutely terrifying from the prey's perspective. Real life "it follows"

@Ravenousyouth 4 months ago

If you have ever tried foraging irl in real nature you understand that it is hard

@mavistheapplepie6331 2 months ago

The fact that gathering was a significant ammount of the food supplies ties in the fact humans are able to perceive colors like red because they need to spot the berries, fruits and mushrooms

@ianthefifth7790 3 months ago

Imagining myself as a deer that just cannot escape a group of humans for hours and hours no matter where i run or hide is terrifying tbh

@qp7gk 4 months ago

The idea that women walked into a dangerous jungle to forage for berries BUT were incapable of fighting preadtors.... is silly. They carried weapons, they worked in teams, they were brave and fierce. They had to be.

@KristiKick 4 months ago

CRAZY how HALF the amount of skeletons were misgendered just cause of the scientists assumption! What the hell!?

@reallysoftcoala7921 3 months ago

I'm just simply angry at how we were taught that women were less everywhere. I'm so angry I hope everyone sees this and in the next decade our names will be cleared and respected o n the society.

@itsScherzkeks 4 months ago

I think foraging for wild food is STILL very difficult, and absolutely dangerous if you don’t know what you’re doing.

@Sam_Dabboi 4 months ago

As someone who had believed the old man-hunter and woman-gatherer theory, I found this video informative and also not condescending. 10/10. Make more please!

@T.h.w.T 3 months ago

The true meaning of "return to monke" was to respect women all along

@MimiL-ju5fj 2 months ago

This is so refreshing to hear as a woman. I never understood why it was so hard for some people to know I am in fact just another human being who is JUST as capable and intelligent as them. Now I know that this lie of men and women's roles in our society has been so baked into media, education, etc, that for some people it would be ignoring something they've learned as biological and factual to acknowledge that women literally did the same exact shit as men for 95% of human history (excluding males from giving birth of course).
Thank you for making this video, and I'm also lowkey sad that one reason women aren't as strong is due to societal expectations of fragility and beauty to fit this new bullshit ideal. I wish we could go back to a world where we all know everyone, man or woman, has their own set of skills and that all of us have the capacity to make life wonderful for each other! Knowledge is power<3