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TIME: You had this job hunt going, and you were banging pretty hard on Betty Currie's door. You don't think the President could have come to the conclusion that he had to keep you happy and move you out of town...
...thinking that led to man-the-hunter was largely inferential: if you bring the women along on the hunt, the children will have to come too, and all that squalling and chattering would surely scare off the game. This inference was based on a particular style of hunting, familiar from Hemingway novels and common to the New England woods in October, in which a small band of men trek off into the wild and patiently stalk their prey, a deer or two at a time. But there is another way to get the job done known as "communal hunting...
...there was only indirect evidence of communal hunting in Paleolithic times until archaeologist Olga Soffer came across the kind of clue that, a gender traditionalist might say, it took a womanly eye to notice. While sifting through clay fragments from the Paleolithic site of Pavlov in what is now the Czech Republic, she found a series of parallel lines impressed on some of the clay surfaces--evidence of woven fibers from about 25,000 years ago. Intrigued to find signs of weaving from this early date, Soffer and her colleagues examined 8,400 more clay fragments from the same...
...related mischief on the men's side of the campfire: no blood on our hands! But there are other reasons to doubt the eternal equation of masculinity with aggression and violence, femininity with gentleness and a taste for green salads. In ancient Greece and Sumer the deities of the hunt, Artemis and Ninhursag, were female--extremely female, if you will, since these were also the goddesses who presided over childbirth. Even more striking is the association of ancient goddesses with nature's original hunters, the predatory animals. In Anatolia, the predator goddess was Kybele, known as the commander of lions...
Residents enjoy 30 area marinas, miles of bike trails and the huge Eastern Neck Wildlife Refuge. Out-of-towners come to tour the historic homes and treasure hunt at craft and antique shows. Some folks bring cameras and sketchpads to chronicle the Sultana Shipbuilding Project, a community endeavor to create a two-masted 18th century schooner for educational projects. Others are enticed by the Blue Heron Cafe, an American seafood restaurant known for its to-die-for oyster fritters...