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New Women of the Ice Age
The status of women in a society depends in large measure on their role in the economy. The reinterpretation of the Paleolithic past centers on new views of the role of women in the food-foraging economy. Amassing critical and previously overlooked evidence from Dolni Vestonice and the neighboring site of Pavlov, researchers Olga Softer, James Adovasio, and David Hyland now propose that human survival there had little to do with men hurling spears at big-game animals. Instead, observes Softer, one of the world’s leading authorities on Ice Age hunters and gatherers and an archeologist at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana,
it depended largely on women, plants, and a technique of hunting previously invisible in the archeological evidence--net hunting. "This is not the image we’ve always had of Upper Paleolithic macho guys out killing animals up close and personal," Softer explains. "Net
A. They are in agreement for the most part regarding the activities that women performed.
B. Softer has based her theories on archeological evidence that her colleagues had not considered.
C. Conservative researchers are doubtful about the studies of stone tools and big-game bones.
D. Her theories are much more difficult to prove because she relies on modern cultural evidence.
