Which of the following best explains why women likely gathered food and remained close to the band's home base while men hunted farther afield before 10,000 B.C.E.?
A. Women were biologically smaller and less capable of hunting game big enough to feed the whole community.
B. The loss of a woman of child-bearing age would negatively impact a community far more than the loss of a single man.
C. Early human societies were largely matriarchal, and women delegated harder tasks such as hunting to men.
D. Women were viewed as sacred and barred from engaging in acts of murder.
Answer: B
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