Women - higher status?

It is said that during this time, the women had a higher status and more power.

Let's take a deeper look into that!

Men:

• It is assued that the men were the hunters, because of their physical capability. The hunting brought in mainly meat that supplied 30% to the collection of food. Because of the hunting, they had periodically traveling - they sepperate from the main group to hunt.

Women:

Cecause the women were the ones carrying the babies, they shouldn't be put in danger. Therefor the women were the gatheres!

• Gathering brought in 70% of the food supplies. Examples given are grains, pulses, wild vegetables, wild fruits, shell fish (High in protein and Omega3, good for the barin!) and fire woods!
• Women always at center of community - Because of the mens periodically traveling - the women had to make the decisions in the community!
• Child rearing, passing of cultural traditions! They decide what cultural decisions they want to pass on and shape the next generation!
• There was also an absence of conflict because there's no economic benefit of that.

One more piece of evidence:

Venus of willendorf 

About 30 000 BP. This is the most famous image of a human. These are nomadic statues! What's even more fascinating is that all these images that are found during this time are in the shape of a woman. It's an icon of prehistoric art. 

Venus of lespuge -  Excisted about 30 000 BP to 10 000 BP. 188 of these statues have been found!

They all have certain charachteristics in common:

• All Female
• Featureless faces
• Thin arms over breasts
• No feet
• Protruding genitals
• Large breasts and hips

Some featues of the sates can be analyzed. The facelessness  of the figurine for example gives them an  anonymity, which suggests that it may have been  not just a statue of one women - but representing all women during this time.  

I also belive the arms resting on her breasts are suppose to give a calm, confident feeling. For instance, if a man was to be sculptures during this time I think it would have been made with some indication of their hunting (like more aggressive or holding a weapon)

The fact that it doesn't have any stabil feet to stand on might suggest that these statues were carried around with the humans.

As earlier mentioned, women has been seen as more powerful during this time because of e.g. their influence on the children and supplying more food than the men.

So going through trouble of making women instead of men might show they had more power. So from the evidence given in this post, I therefor belive that women during this time had a higher status than the men.