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RG: What did you find?
Macintosh: We found that women living during the first 5,500 years of farming in Central Europe had stronger arm bones than most living women, even stronger than the rowers. Women in the study’s earliest agricultural time period, the Early Neolithic period, had arm bones that were approximate 30 percent stronger than those of living recreationally-active women, and around 16 percent stronger than those of living rowers.
We also found that prehistoric women's leg bone strength was Switzerland Mobile Number List really variable, and encompassed almost the entire range of values that we saw in the living women, including relatively sedentary women through to ultramarathon runners. This suggests that prehistoric agricultural women were doing a huge range of daily activities that involved varying amounts of strain on their legs, but were consistently doing higher levels of manual labor than living rowers.
Cambridge University Women’s Boat Club Openweight crew rowing during the 2017 Boat Race on the river Thames in London. The Cambridge women’s crew beat Oxford in the race. The members of this crew were among those analysed in the study. Credit: Alastair Fyfe for the University of Cambridge.
Macintosh: Though it's hard to say exactly what these women were doing, these communities were farming prior to mechanization, which would have involved tilling the soil, planting crops, harvesting crops, and grinding the grain to make flour, all by hand. Before the plow was invented, they would have been using tools like digging sticks and flint sickles inserted into wooden handles to till the soil and harvest the grain.
Throughout the time periods in the study, they were using stone querns to grind the grain into flour by hand. Women also were likely involved in looking after domestic livestock, milking them, processing milk, meat, hides, and wool into textiles, and making pottery and manufacturing other items.
Macintosh: We found that women living during the first 5,500 years of farming in Central Europe had stronger arm bones than most living women, even stronger than the rowers. Women in the study’s earliest agricultural time period, the Early Neolithic period, had arm bones that were approximate 30 percent stronger than those of living recreationally-active women, and around 16 percent stronger than those of living rowers.
We also found that prehistoric women's leg bone strength was Switzerland Mobile Number List really variable, and encompassed almost the entire range of values that we saw in the living women, including relatively sedentary women through to ultramarathon runners. This suggests that prehistoric agricultural women were doing a huge range of daily activities that involved varying amounts of strain on their legs, but were consistently doing higher levels of manual labor than living rowers.
Cambridge University Women’s Boat Club Openweight crew rowing during the 2017 Boat Race on the river Thames in London. The Cambridge women’s crew beat Oxford in the race. The members of this crew were among those analysed in the study. Credit: Alastair Fyfe for the University of Cambridge.
Macintosh: Though it's hard to say exactly what these women were doing, these communities were farming prior to mechanization, which would have involved tilling the soil, planting crops, harvesting crops, and grinding the grain to make flour, all by hand. Before the plow was invented, they would have been using tools like digging sticks and flint sickles inserted into wooden handles to till the soil and harvest the grain.
Throughout the time periods in the study, they were using stone querns to grind the grain into flour by hand. Women also were likely involved in looking after domestic livestock, milking them, processing milk, meat, hides, and wool into textiles, and making pottery and manufacturing other items.