Quote Originally Posted by Thorne View Post
I don't think you can go that far. In many primitive cultures women would hunt, supplementing the male hunters, as long as they were not pregnant or nursing. Like modern day soldiers, women could deal with the rigors of hunting just as easily as the men. The gregarious manner of women, in reality, is no different from the males bonding around the campfire, or at the local bar, after a hard day on the hunt. With the women, though, it was a more constant thing, while gathering plants and fruits, cooking, caring for the young, etc.
You are quite correct Thorn, the Amazons were not a ficticious race, they were trained by the Romans to fight in the arena. It is writen though that they became to powerful for the Romans to handle, instead of the Romans putting them to death, they were taken to the Russian stepps and released. There are tapastries showing them fighting Atilla the Hun before Siberia and the Sayan mountains were lost to the Russians. They were all women, and the stories say they attacked other villages for the men, but only for breeding, but after the women mated the men were not killed as it is generaly thought, the Amizons looked after their men and they kept house while the women went hunting. I have spent over seven years studying the Amazons, because it is part of a book that i hope to be published this year.