
Originally Posted by
OakLeaf
I'm not so sure that's true - at least for males in hunter/gatherer cultures where men were the hunters and women were the gatherers. I've read more than once that before the invention of the bow, people hunted deer (or the ancestors of deer) by running them to exhaustion. I don't know how long a deer has to run before you can get close enough to club it, but it's probably a pretty long ways.