Nine thousand years ago, a woman was buried in the Andean mountains of Peru next to tools normally associated with big-game hunting. Before you think she was just a badass, UC Davis researchers found that many females in the early Americas were big-game hunters and we shouldn’t be so quick to project our own gender stereotypes and current cultural values on ancient societies. In this episode of Unfold, we dig a little deeper to learn more about this archaeological discovery. 

In this episode: 

Randy Haas, archaeologist and assistant professor, UC Davis Department of Anthropology 

Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, distinguished research professor emeritus, UC Davis Department of Anthropology

Glendon Parker, adjunct associate professor, UC Davis Department of Environmental Toxicology

Kim Senklip Harvey, indigenous theorist and cultural evolutionist with the Tsilhqot’in and Syilx nations