1 Comment

There’s one important thing here that this neglects to mention. Women inventing calendars originating from period tracking assumes that early women were living with similar relationships to pregnancy as modern humans. The abstinence we reasonably practice in the modern era is not a good survival strategy for early humans. The state of being pregnant may have occurred more often the state of not being pregnant! Who says they went long enough without pregnancy to have a pattern to track?

I live out in the away from civilization (in the mountain) half the year as a part of my job and my period goes away due to the constant exercise and lean diet.

With many women not stockpiling nutrient reserves and regularly becoming pregnant, I have a feeling periods were not that common in neolithic and early agrarian societies.

Bleeding monthly is just a costly and impractical system for any animal, hence why most mammals do not have periods.

Expand full comment