A balance of both I think. The females would choose the best mates for the situation. More successful males got more pussy.
Otoh? Horney males would bang the prettiest girls. To avoid this (near-constant rape) females would gravitate to the males who could physically protect them as well as provide for the babies.
To do otherwise invited extinction, I think. Animals do the same thing(s) too.
This is also why older females stop getting pregnant. Not just because it would make "damaged" babies who'd die anyhow, but so there's a cadre of women to "service" the young males & keep them off the married women.
Remember, women lived longer than males back then too, widows past their baby-age were probably common. Hence "wise older women" kept their place in society.
A balance of both I think. The females would choose the best mates for the situation. More successful males got more pussy.
Otoh? Horney males would bang the prettiest girls. To avoid this (near-constant rape) females would gravitate to the males who could physically protect them as well as provide for the babies.
To do otherwise invited extinction, I think. Animals do the same thing(s) too.
This is also why older females stop getting pregnant. Not just because it would make "damaged" babies who'd die anyhow, but so there's a cadre of women to "service" the young males & keep them off the married women.
Remember, women lived longer than males back then too, widows past their baby-age were probably common. Hence "wise older women" kept their place in society.