You might think that with the remarkable popularity of TV survival shows, everyone would already know all they need to know to live through getting lost. Alas, the eternal quest for higher ratings means these shows foolishly focus on the bizarre, the ridiculous and the idiotic. Why would you spend days constructing a laughable structure that can’t even keep out the rain? What happened to the regular old raincoat?
The main idea in the paragraph is that women played a bigger role in prehistoric progress than is commonly thought.
Two details supporting this claim are statues and cave paintings from prehistoric times, which represent scenes from the life of the people who created them. This art has apparently been studied by experts and seems to provide evidence of women's various pioneering roles.
Women are likely to have invented pottery, baskets and gardening because they had to watch over young children and therefore were staying near the living spaces instead of going out hunting, for example. This means that they had more time to spend experimenting with tools and techniques. What's more, because they were not hunting, women were expected to help men bring food to the community by growing crops, which is why it is thought they invented gardening.