How did the agricultural revolution affect women?
Actually, that depends on your definition of stone age. There were farmers in all areas of the Americas and the Native Americans never did create metal of any kind. They were still in the “stone age” in the 1700’s. The Australian aborigines were the same. And there is evidence that some of their people groups did some rudimentary farming also. That said, farming changed the roles both men and women played. In some cultures women owned and worked the fields. In other cultures the men did. Women definitely had new rolls in food preservation and preparation. An agricultural society allowed women to stay in one place which decreased the childbirth fatality rates. It also offered a more consistent nutritional base reducing the number of children starving to death. Agrarian societies allow more population density for the land mass than nomadic societies. However, the increase in population density allowed by a captured and producing food source adds risk of disease and brings in bandits and
