How Ancient Dart Launchers Changed the Game for Early Female Hunters

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8. It's long been known that women suppliued 80-90% of the calories

While a dart propelled by an atlatl might have been effective, it was more likely a child's hunting kit. Women would have used more efficient methods like nets and snares to trap protein for dinner.

There is indirect evidence for twined fabric (which requies no loom) and nets going back 40,000+ years through impressions on clay and carved figurines.

Here is an example, almost laughably large. Twined fabric can be quite fine, although not as fine as later woven fabric:

I can't find the net headdress reconstruction, it was fascinating, but YouTube has totally screwed up its alogrithm: Looking for netting gets me economic forecasts, for twining gets me studies on twins. I give up. Not only have they gotten so overly pious there are age restrictions on history and anthropology, they've decided we're all dunces who don't know what we're looking for. /rant