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This ancient big-game hunter was a woman – Ars Technica

She hunted 9,000 years ago in the Andean highlands and was buried with her gear.

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At Wilamaya Patjxa, an archaeological site in southern Peru, archaeologists unearthed the skeleton of a young woman whose people buried her with a hunters toolkit, including projectile points. The find prompted University of California Davis archaeologist Randall Haas and his colleagues to take a closer look at other Pleistocene and early Holocene hunters from around the Americas.
Their results may suggest that female hunters werent as rare as we thought. And that,…

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