It is not yet noon and I have already helped unload 4 round bales (~600lbs ea) and then collected 35 gallons of water (~280lbs in containers that are either 56lbs or 40lbs). Then we let the sheep and goats out to nom some chickweed and wild onion, then we put them back.
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("We" in this case being me and my right hand man, Beamer Border Collie)
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Anyway earlier today I stumbled across a year old paper that showed via the changes to bone structure that Neolithic women in Britain were stronger than the women on the Cambridge rowing team.
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Yes! I heard about that paper this summer. I believe it was a broader discussion (for the medieval period anyway) that so-called “women’s work” was not easy within agricultural societies and that often it was the men who did considerably less physical labour.
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And that women were doing all the stuff in the house etc in addition to also outside work. I agree that they should have compared with farmer women though too.
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It would be a more interesting comparison, certainly! Ah well.
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I think the reason they compared to rowers is that it’s the “obvious” upper body strength. But I mean, women doing farm work isn’t new, and the idea that women were just doing “simple” chores while men did all the “hard/complex” work is some Victorian public vs private life bs
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