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The big-game hunter buried in an ancient grave: a female teenager

The burial and others like it suggest that female hunters were common in the Americas thousands of years ago.
Artist reconstruction of Wilamaya Patjxa vicuña hunt.

An artist’s impression of a vicuña hunt, inspired by the grave of a female teenager buried with hunting tools 9,000 years ago in what is now Peru. Credit: Matthew Verdolivo/UC Davis IET Academic Technology Services

The oldest known grave of a hunter in the Americas belongs to a female adolescent, further undercutting the stereotype of ‘man the hunter’.

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Nature 587, 179 (2020)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-020-03104-8

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