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Hunter-gatherer cultures typically divide their labour along gender and age lines: men hunt, while women and children gather. <ref>Recent archaeological and ethnographic research has called this assertion into question (note added on 7 July 2023). Source: {{Cyt | tytuł = PLoS ONE | nazwisko r = Anderson | imię r = Abigail | nazwisko2 r = Chilczuk | imię2 r = Sophia | nazwisko3 r = Nelson | imię3 r = Kaylie | nazwisko4 r = Ruther | imię4 r = Roxanne | nazwisko5 r = Wall-Scheffler | imię5 r = Cara | rozdział = The Myth of Man the Hunter: Women’s contribution to the hunt across ethnographic contexts | adres rozdziału = https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0287101 | wydawca = Public Library of Science | data = 28 June 2023 | wolumin = 18 (6) }}</ref> In farming societies, where foraging is no longer the chief source of food, but still helps expand the menu, this division is not only continued, but also expanded to include a class dimension: hunting, treated increasingly as a sport, is the domain of noblemen, while picking berries, nuts and herbs is left to peasants, especially women. In ''Pan Tadeusz'', we can observe a pair of young peasants – a girl and a boy – collecting cowberries and hazelnuts.