Did women invented Time and Agriculture?

[anansi]

I was having a conversation with some folks at my place and the conversations got into inventions by females..Madam Curie was brought up but I stated that woman may have invented agriculture and time only to be met with howls of disapproval from the males and cheers from the females..but was I correct? the only reason I bought that up in the first place was because I read it somewhere ...Black women in antiquity a book no longer in my possession..but I remember it goes something like this.

Females were the first tellers of time because of their monthly cycles
and when they gave birth early men were dumb founded because they thought they had nothing to do with it.. so the first deities were goddess rather than gods..after-all they produced life spontaneously.

Agriculture was invented by females because according the book if my memory is correct..that when the males went out hunting the females would stay behind guarding the children..and gathering wild plants for supplement and may have hit upon the idea that they could make a small garden near their habitat instead of wondering off too far..if any of you good folks have more information please share..ps I am bias on this issue I don't want the males to win this one..

[truthteacher2007]

May 27, 2010 0:06:35 GMT -5 anansi said:

I was having a conversation with some folks at my place and the conversations got into inventions by females..Madam Curie was brought up but I stated that woman may have invented agriculture and time only to be met with howls of disapproval from the males and cheers from the females..but was I correct? the only reason I bought that up in the first place was because I read it somewhere ...Black women in antiquity a book no longer in my possession..but I remember it goes something like this.

Females were the first tellers of time because of their monthly cycles
and when they gave birth early men were dumb founded because they thought they had nothing to do with it.. so the first deities were goddess rather than gods..after-all they produced life spontaneously.

Agriculture was invented by females because according the book if my memory is correct..that when the males went out hunting the females would stay behind guarding the children..and gathering wild plants for supplement and may have hit upon the idea that they could make a small garden near their habitat instead of wondering off too far..if any of you good folks have more information please share..ps I am bias on this issue I don't want the males to win this one..

I remember reading something to that effect a long time age with regards to the development of agraculture in the Sahara. It does make sense. Even in the few hunter gatherer societies around the world its the women who gather and process the plants for food. Infact, since hunting is often a very time consuming activity, the majority of the food is actually produced by women.