Skeletal damage hints some hunter-gatherer women fought in battles

Traditional views of females being largely responsible for gathering food may be too simplistic

skeletons in Mongolia tomb

Skeletons of two people buried in an ancient tomb in Mongolia include a woman (left) who may have been a horse-riding, bow-and-arrow-wielding warrior, scientists say.

C. Lee

Women’s reputation as nurturing homebodies who left warfare to men in long-ago societies is under attack.