iduals (seven adults and two children) were painted or sprinkled with crushed red ochre, a natural iron oxide that was often used by prehistoric people to make paint or colored powder. Four of these people, three adult males and one adult female, were buried with offerings, and five without - or perhaps with baskets and other perishable objects that would not have survived. Most of the offerings were probably the personal belongings of those who had died. Certain kinds of belongings were buried only with men, and others only with women. For instance, bone fishhooks and harpoons were found only with male burials, suggesting that it was the men of CA-SAC-43 who did the fishing. It is also interesting to note that almost as many women as men were buried with spear or arrow points. Were these women prehistoric hunters?

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