Hunter-gatherer societies are often put on a pedestal as paragons of equality – but the reality is more complicated

Even in egalitarian societies, people can be unequal in various ways. Duncan Stibbard Hawkes

On the shores of Lake Eyasi in Northern Tanzania, a small number of people still hunt and gather their food. Today a Hadza hunter has taken down an animal – a kudu. He can’t carry it by himself, so he cuts his poisoned arrow from its flank, covers the carcass in dry grass to hide it from hyenas and heads home to enlist help.

A kudu post-butchering, with portions going to various community members. Duncan Stibbard Hawkes