>I can't understand why they spend so much time building a discussion of men >vs. women and hunting vs. gathering. Men can gather as well and women can >kill as well. Especially the smaller animals (like birds, reptiles, >insects). I think it is completly true and generally overlooked . A half native who have been raised by his grand mother, told me the story when he was a baby on her back coming back from gathering . She found a snake killed it and put it on her shoulder when she arrived to the camp ,the baby had eaten a big part of it. He told me that because seeing me eating raw meat reminded him of it . jean-claude