Question

What was the role of men and women in prehistoric societies? How might these different roles helped them survive?

Answer 1

Answer:

Explanation: In human society, during the Paleolithic Era, men and women served different functions within their tribes. Men were generally responsible for hunting, whereas women were generally responsible for gathering as well as caring for children and preserving tribal harmony.

Answer 2

Answer:

• Our prehistoric forebears are often portrayed as spear-wielding savages, but the earliest human societies are likely to have been founded on enlightened egalitarian principles, according to scientists.
• A study has shown that in contemporary hunter-gatherer tribes, men and women tend to have equal influence on where their group lives and who they live with. The findings challenge the idea that sexual equality is a recent invention, suggesting that it has been the norm for humans for most of our evolutionary history.
• With the onset of agriculture men began to work outside as women took to the indoors doing less strenuous tasks/child rearing which gradually made women appear less important than men in society.