The invisible sex : uncovering the true roles of women in prehistory
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The invisible sex : uncovering the true roles of women in prehistory
Routledge, 2016
- : pbk
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"Originally published in the United State [sic] in hardcover by Smithsonian Books/Harper Collins in 2007 under ISBN 978-0-06-117091-1"-- T.p. verso
"First published 2007 by Left Coast Press, Inc."-- T.p. verso
Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-290) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Shaped by cartoons and museum dioramas, our vision of Paleolithic times tends to feature fur-clad male hunters fearlessly attacking mammoths while timid women hover fearfully behind a boulder. Recent archaeological research has shown that this vision bears little relation to reality. J. M. Adovasio and Olga Soffer, two of the world's leading experts on perishable artifacts such as basketry, cordage, and weaving, present an exciting new look at prehistory. With science writer Jake Page, they argue that women invented all kinds of critical materials, including the clothing necessary for life in colder climates, the ropes used to make rafts that enabled long-distance travel by water, and nets used for communal hunting. Even more important, women played a central role in the development of language and social life-in short, in our becoming human. In this eye-opening book, a new story about women in prehistory emerges with provocative implications for our assumptions about gender today.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1: The Beginnings
- 1: The Stories We Have Been Told
- 2: Origins
- 3: The Importance of Being Upright
- 4: Who Brought Home the Bacon?
- 5: Gray Matter and Language
- 2: The Road to Thoroughly Modern Millie
- 6: Leaving the African Cradle
- 7: Almost Altogether Truly Modern Humans
- 8: The Fashioning of Women
- 3: Peopling the World
- 9: Cakes, Fish, and Matrilineality
- 10: Seamstresses of the Far North
- 11: Settling Down in America
- 12: The Agricultural Evolution
- 3: Conclusion Not Invisible After All
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