Discovery in 12,000-Year-Old Grave Shows Not All Ancient Fishers Were Men

[rangerrebew]

Discovery in 12,000-Year-Old Grave Shows Not All Ancient Fishers Were Men

Women played an important role in hunter-gatherer societies.
MICHELLE STARR
12 DEC 2017

Archaeologists have unearthed the oldest fish hooks found in a grave, and they're challenging the idea that most of the fishing work in the Indonesian region thousands of years ago was only carried out by men.

Dating back to the Pleistocene 12,000 years ago, the hooks were part of the grave goods of a burial on Indonesia's Alor Island, carefully arranged under the chin and around the jaw of the deceased - who the researchers think was a woman.
 

http://www.sciencealert.com/pleistocene-fish-hooks-female-burial-grave-hunter-gatherer-indonesia

[Sanguine]

Well....yeah.  Women have always worked.   

And, I don't understand how those hooks would have worked.