It's a familiar story to many of us: In prehistoric times, men were hunters and women were gatherers. Women were not physically capable of hunting because their anatomy was different from men. And because men were hunters, they drove human evolution.
I mean, if you and your little group of people are struggling to eat, yeah Bertha Strongarm better be puttin up them Mammoth numbers; iun care you got titties, we need to eat!
Chimp empire on Netflix studies two chimp communities. One the females hunted and the other they didn’t. They one that the females hunted in had fewer males and population overall, so it was done out of necessity.
It could be the same in this situation where women hunted but it wasn’t necessarily the norm compared with men and depended on the situation. Not sure of course just pointing out the possibility.