Specialized tasks by sex thousands of years ago
Gender-based division of labor 4,000 years ago with some tasks carried out only by women.
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Only women used their anterior teeth to make threads and strings.
The study of dental wear of 106 individuals buried in Castellón Alto site (Granada, Spain) confirms this statement.
First author is Marina Lozano (IPHES-URV), who has published a paper about this research in the Journal of Archaeological Science.