#Archaeology31 Day 19- Fashion. An Andean study of a 9k year old high-status burial found that the hunter was a woman, subverting the 'Man the Hunter' tropes.

A scientific illustrator incorporated the artifactual and rock art evidence to make this cool painting! 1/5

The pinkish shade of the leather was chosen by the illustrator after looking at evidence of ochre dye in the burial, which might not hold fast to leather to make the red-brown we expect. 2/5

Now the SCIENCE DRAMA.
Some of us have knee-jerk reactions to women in pink, thinking if women are depicted in pink they're being feminized and placed as 'less than'. This is Eurocentric color psychology, w/ pink being associated with girls from the 1940s. 3/5

Some of these reactions were...embarassing.

The artist had put in a lot of work to create an accurate representation, and these comments about the hunter's feminization reflected more on the biases of the commenters (many archaeologists) than the illustrator. 4/5

The summary by @ayushi_nayak captures it all really well, it's worth going through her thread: https://twitter.com/ayushi_nayak/status/1325059635125030912
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