Prehistoric Gender Roles

Women in prehistoric times have been, in a sense, forgotten about. They have always been pictured as the more tranquil of the two sexes and seen working in the background, doing mundane tasks such as taking care of children and cooking, while men have been viewed as dominant, aggressive, sole providers of resources, and as the protectors. The definite roles in those prehistoric societies were thought to have been attributed to specific genders but looking back shows that these “specific roles” were actually shared between sexes. Scientific discoveries have been perpetually central around the Man the Hunter theory and has been thought to be the reason why our societies have specific gender roles now, however new found and re-examined data reveals