Challenges popular beliefs that prehistoric women filled sideline roles in Paleolithic times, drawing on recent research to reveal how women developed tools that were key to survival and played a central role in human language and social development. Reprint.

Invisible Sex, The

Politics & Social Sciences

Page, Jake

Soffer, Olga

Adovasio, J.M.

Anthropology

HarperPB

<p>A necessity to those interested in North Central Europe 18,000 years ago or further back. Hard cover</p>

The Upper Paleolithic of the Central Russian Plain (Studies in Archaeology)

Business & Money

Economics

Academic Press

The Upper Paleolithic of the Central Russian Plain

The Invisible Sex

<p>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.</p>

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

History

Ancient Civilizations

Routledge

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