restless ones who didn't have ababy around to enliven their life, or skill in making or cooking orsinging, or very interesting thoughts to think, decided to slope offand hunt mammoths
implying that, other than hunting, pre-historic men did not contribute much to society in pre-historic times.
it wast't the meat that made the difference. It was the story.
That story not only has Action, it has a Hero. Heroes are power-ful. Before you know it, the men and women in the wild-oat patcha nd their kids and the skills of the makers and the thoughts of thethoughtful and the songs of the singers are all part of it, have allbeen pressed into service in the tale of the Hero. But it isn't theirstory. It's his
Men got to venture out and hunt and, therefore, make up stories and songs of the "Hero" and his actions. Women stayed in camp and "gathered", decreasing their chances to make the same stories and songs as the males.