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Prado‐Nóvoa, Olalla 0abbe093-3612-497e-bbaf-8433c2c2432d 500 Rodríguez, Jesús 30040176-5933-459b-8963-0f43e08ca06d 600 Vidal Cordasco, Marco Adolfo ac305312-9f7a-4254-ba07-db98ba501860 600 Zorrilla Revilla, Guillermo 1887e233-d2b3-40b5-943b-159c178317b8 600 Mateos, Ana 527ebd00-ef42-4ebd-8fc9-086c2bcf2fbe 600 2026-02-17T08:45:52Z 2026-02-17T08:45:52Z 2020-05 1042-0533 https://hdl.handle.net/10259/11372 10.1002/ajhb.23352 1520-6300 Objectives: Load transport activities are of vital importance to current foragers for daily subsistence tasks; thus, it has been suggested that these practices have transformed physical and behavioral characteristics through human evolution. Together with the procurement targets and strategies, the transportation of resources acquired while foraging is strongly influenced by the sex of the foragers. In hunter-gatherer societies, women, despite their smaller body size, usually carry heavier burdens than males. In this study, whether those behavioral differences can be explained by a different economy of load-carriage by sex, irrespective of the body mass of the individuals, is investigated. Material and methods: The energy expenditure of a sample of 48 volunteers (21 females, 27 males) during a set of locomotion and burden transport trials was monitored. Two indexes were computed to compare the increment in the cost of locomotion relative to the load carried by sex. Results: The results demonstrate that both males and females, carrying the same relative loads, experience the same increment over the cost of their unloaded locomotion. Therefore, apart from obvious differences in body mass, there is no evidence of a dissimilar economy favoring one sex over the other that would explain the differences in load-carriage activities observed among current foraging populations. Conclusions: These outcomes provide new conclusions about the constraints of the behavioral ecology of burden transport activities, and highlight the necessity to reevaluate, from an evolutionary perspective, the ideas about the sexual division of subsistence labor in hunter-gatherer and agriculturalist populations. This study was supported by the Span-ish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO)project CGL2015-65387-C3-3-P. Prado-Nóvoa, Vidal-Cordasco, and Zorrilla-Revilla benefited from predoctoralresearch grants EDU/310/2015 and EDU/602/2016 fromJunta de Castilla y León funded with the Social EuropeanFund, Operative Program of Junta de Castilla y León,through the Consejería de Educación. application/pdf eng Wiley American Journal of Human Biology. 2020, V. 32, n. 3, e23352 https://doi.org/10.1002/ajhb.23352 Burden transport Load-carriage economy Foraging strategies Division of labour Antropología física Evolución humana Caza prehistórica Physical anthropology Human evolution Hunting, Prehistoric No sex differences in the economy of load‐carriage info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess American Journal of Human Biology 32 3 THUMBNAIL Prado-AJHB_2020.pdf.jpg Prado-AJHB_2020.pdf.jpg IM Thumbnail image/jpeg 1862 https://riubu.ubu.es/bitstream/10259/11372/3/Prado-AJHB_2020.pdf.jpg 01edad36dfdfbff00584e862b064ffca MD5 3 LICENSE license.txt license.txt text/plain; charset=utf-8 998 https://riubu.ubu.es/bitstream/10259/11372/2/license.txt aa90105e1c90a1b4fe810649aa967b7d MD5 2 ORIGINAL Prado-AJHB_2020.pdf Prado-AJHB_2020.pdf application/pdf 4803844 https://riubu.ubu.es/bitstream/10259/11372/1/Prado-AJHB_2020.pdf 44f6ea5502b2ec1a0a3b817a9949f1f6 MD5 1 10259/11372 oai:riubu.ubu.es:10259/11372 2026-02-18 02:05:56.415 Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Burgos bubrep@ubu.es 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