"What you do in your lifetime can change your skeleton," she said. While we may not think of our bones as something that adapts with us as we strengthen our muscles, it is living tissue and highly "plastic," Macintosh said. Their leg bones were comparable to those of the rowers.įor the women of the Bronze Age (4,300 to 3,500 years ago), their arm bones were nine to 13 per cent stronger than the rowers, with leg bones that were 12 per cent weaker. They found that the arm bones of Neolithic women, dating from 7,400 to 7,000 years ago, were 11 to 16 per cent stronger than those of the rowers, or 30 per cent stronger than typical Cambridge students. (Wikimedia Commons/Matteo De Stefano/MUSE)įor their study, published in the journal Science Advances, the researchers scanned the bones from various sites in central Europe and compared them to those of women involved in trials with the open and lightweight squads at the University of Cambridge's rowing team. It's believed that Neolithic women did extensive agricultural work, which may be why their arms were much stronger than those of women today. "I felt a little vindicated for showing that women were indeed not just sitting on their butts," Macintosh said. "I didn't suspect that was the case, but it feels nice to provide that data from living women and to highlight that hidden history of women's work." Comparing women to women provided a better understanding of the kind of lives those in prehistoric times were living. That study found women of the time to be weaker when compared to men, but Macintosh said that it wasn't a complete picture.
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The research stemmed out of a previous study that compared the bones of prehistoric women to those of men. Alison Macintosh, University of Cambridge
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That's a lot of manual labour." I felt a little vindicated for showing that women were indeed not just sitting on their butts. And they also do all the planting and harvesting and the grinding of the grain to make flour. "They have to till the soil by hand, with things like digging sticks and hoes. "They're farming without the plow or mechanized anything," Alison Macintosh, the Canadian lead researcher who is now with the University of Cambridge, told CBC News. Fossils found in Morocco date back 300,000 years.
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