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Women Hunt, Too

SOME GROUPS OF PEOPLE TODAY RELY ON HUNTING AND GATHERING FOR THEIR FOOD.IN THOSE GROUPS, the hunters are usually men. Researchers thought the same thing was true in the distant past. But the discovery of a prehistoric female hunter shows it wasn’t always the case.

In the Andes Mountains in South America, scientists found a burial site that’s about 9,000 years old. An ancient human had been buried with a lot

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