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Historic gender archetypes of hunter-gatherer women are being challenged by a team of researchers whose new study presents further evidence of “warrior women” in prehistory. Traditional archaeological views generally hold females being mostly responsible for gathering foods and raising young, but this is “much too simplistic,” according to forensic anthropologist Dr. Marin Pilloud of the University of Nevada, Reno. Two research teams had planned to present their new findings on April 17 at the annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, which has now been canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, but Science News has now published a research article about the new study. In this new two-part paper, the analysis of skeletal remains of hunter-gatherers excavated in