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. In fact, recent research has shown that this vision bears little relation to reality.
The field of archaeology has changed dramatically in the past two decades, as women have challenged their male colleagues' exclusive focus on hard artifacts such as spear points rather than tougher to find evidence of women's work. J. M. Adovasio and Olga Soffer are two of the world's leading experts on perishable artifacts such as basketry, cordage, and weaving. In The Invisible Sex, the authors present an exciting new look at prehistory, arguing 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.

The Invisible Sex: Uncovering the True Roles of Women in Prehistory

Arts & Photography

Jake Page

J. M. Adovasio

Olga Soffer

History & Criticism

Smithsonian

Essays discuss birds, pets, entropy, animal-human relations, grackles, plants, intensive gardening, dandelions, insects, names, technology, dinosaurs, wasps, and ghosts

Pastorale: A Natural History of Sorts

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

W.W.Norton&Company

Traces important aspects of a wide variety of species while explaining their ecological importance

Lords of the Air - The Smithsonian Book of Birds

Eugene S. Morton

Random House Value Publishing

Forest

Time Life Medical

1989, oversize hardcover edition, Bound in full purple cloth, stamped on the spine in silver. 288 pages, filled with remarkable paintings, full-color illustrations, maps, etc. Co-written by a magazine editor and an ornithologist. Here are absorbing details on the origins of birds, their flight patterns, their migrations, the way they communicate, and the unique challenges ahead for all bird life.

Lords of The Air: The Smithsonian Book of Birds

Orion Books

Blood: The River of Life (Human Body)

Tolstar Books Inc.

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