MIAMI:
Prehistoric women had
stronger arms
than modern-day rowers, likely due to the rigors of early farming which included tilling fields and grinding grain by hand, researchers said Wednesday.
The study in the journal Science Advances is the first to compare the bones of
women who lived 7,000 years ago in Central Europe to
women of today ? specifically championship
rowers and British college students. Previous studies have compared female to male bones, but this approach likely underestimated the workload of
women because men?s bones ?respond to strain in a more visibly dramatic way
than female bones,? said the report.
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