All your questions are answered within the article. In most cases a few sentences before and/or after your quotes.
Of all the things you mention I agree that the word dominating is not the correct one in this paragraph:
If you follow long-distance races, you might be thinking, wait—males are outperforming females in endurance events! But this is only sometimes the case. Females are more regularly dominating ultraendurance events such as the more than 260-mile Montane Spine foot race through England and Scotland, the 21-mile swim across the English Channel and the 4,300-mile Trans Am cycling race across the U.S. Sometimes female athletes compete in these races while attending to the needs of their children. In 2018 English runner Sophie Power ran the 105-mile Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc race in the Alps while still breastfeeding her three-month-old at rest stations.
I think it’s a very difficult task to try and interpret findings without being influenced by contemporary stereotypes. As you mention, there have been voices in the past decades of archeologists, anthropologists, etc who do a dissent job in trying to just examine the findings.
Others -unfortunately- try to fit the findings into a preconceived narrative. To my understanding "man the hunter hypothesis" is one of those, because as it is mentioned in the article:
the idea that all hunters were male has been bolstered by studies of the few present-day groups of hunter gatherers such as the Hadza of Tanzania and San of southern Africa.
And I would argue that it was a very limited research based on a few (not the few) of those hunter-gatherer groups that are/were considered contemporary.
Some humans were or are hunter-gatherers. This doesn't imply a specific societal model like the one you describe above.
The "man the hunter hypothesis" is just a product of the eurocentric narrative (hierarchical, patriarchal, colonialist to name a few of its characteristics). As it is mentioned in the article:
...the idea that all hunters were male has been bolstered by studies of the few present-day groups of hunter gatherers such as the Hadza of Tanzania and San of southern Africa.
To my understanding, reality has been much more nuanced than the "man the hunter hypothesis".
In different times and different geographical places some hunter-gatherers were hierarchical, some egalitarian, some changed depending on the season, some changed because of colonialism, some were matrilineal, some matriarchal, some patriarchal or a combination of those. And as some say, change is the constant.
I hope these shed some light on this conversation.
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The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong (www.scientificamerican.com)
The influential idea that in the past men were hunters and women were not isn’t supported by the available evidence
Laurie Anderson ends German professorship after criticism of Palestine support (www.theguardian.com)
Woman the hunter: Ancient Andean remains challenge old ideas of who speared big game (www.science.org)
Early hunting was “gender neutral,” archaeologists suggest
The History of Iran: A Primer [38:21] (tube.kockatoo.org)
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