I should have said questions and conserns.

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.

I think they’re making wild assumptions with very little evidence

Don’t you think it is a wild assumption with very little evidence to suggest that only men hunted?

Also, after the part you quoted, the article continues by saying:

Pitblado says that even if not all of those female remains belonged to hunters, the meta-analysis suggests women have long been capable of hunting, and provides hints about where to look more closely for evidence. Human ecologist Eugenia Gayo of the University of Chile agrees. Such research could help answer questions such as “What were the type of environments where everybody got involved in the hunting?” she says.

It shouldn’t be surprising that women could hunt, Pitblado adds. “These women were living high up in the Andes, at 13,000 feet full time,” she says. “If you can do that, surely you can bring down a deer.”