The Dirt on the Past History Minute - Bronze Age Women Stronger than Today’s Elite Female Rowers
The Extreme History Project: The Dirt on the Past

The Dirt on the Past History Minute - Bronze Age Women Stronger than Today’s Elite Female Rowers

2023-03-15

Join Crystal and Nancy, co-hosts of The Dirt on the Past podcast, for a history minute where they discuss how Bronze Age women had stronger arms than today's elite female rowers, due to grinding grain for hours a day. "This is the first study to actually compare prehistoric female bones to those of living women," said lead researcher, Dr Alison Macintosh. 

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