Females Joining the Hunt, Doom Follows

Not only were some of them pale-skinned and red-headed  but females hunted the big beasts alongside the men. 

Of course, they were doomed, the Stone Age Feminists.  You don't put women of fertile age in a position of being easily killed if you want your race of Neanderthals to survive. 

The University of Arizona's Steven L. Kuhn and Mary C. Stiner, use archeological evidence ..argue that Neanderthal females - unlike Homo sapien women of the Upper Paleolithic period - joined men in hunts at a time when stabbing giant beasts with a sharpish stone affixed to a stick represented the cutting edge of technology.

"Putting the reproductive core of the population - pregnant women, mothers of infants, children themselves - at such danger could have put Neanderthals as a whole at serious demographic disadvantage," he said.

Homo sapiens, it appears, possessed the evolutionary advantage of keeping women away from the hunt.

From early days, human women appear to have sewed hide clothing, tended fires, and gathered vegetables rather than risking their lives on the hunt.