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Author : Judy Foster
Release : 2013
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 918/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Invisible Women of Prehistory by : Judy Foster
Download or read book Invisible Women of Prehistory written by Judy Foster. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an opening to histories rarely written about in Australia. Based on several years research into ancient history & prehistory Judy Foster takes on the world.
Author : J. M. Adovasio
Release : 2016-09-16
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 088/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Invisible Sex by : J. M. Adovasio
Download or read book The Invisible Sex written by J. M. Adovasio. This book was released on 2016-09-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : J. M. Adovasio
Release : 2016-09-16
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 07X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Invisible Sex by : J. M. Adovasio
Download or read book The Invisible Sex written by J. M. Adovasio. This book was released on 2016-09-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Sarah Milledge Nelson
Release : 2004-03-15
Genre : Social Science
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 745/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Gender in Archaeology by : Sarah Milledge Nelson
Download or read book Gender in Archaeology written by Sarah Milledge Nelson. This book was released on 2004-03-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of the first comprehensive feminist, theoretical synthesis of the archaeological work on gender reflects the extensive changes in the study of gender and archaeology over the past 8 years. New issues—such as sexuality studies, the body, children, and feminist pedagogy—enrich this edition while the author updates work on the roles of women and men in such areas as human origins, the sexual division of labor, kinship and other social structures, state development, and ideology. Nelson provides examples from gender-specific archaeological studies worldwide to examine such traditional myths as woman the gatherer, the goddess hypothesis, and the Amazon warriors, replacing them with a more nuanced, informed treatment of gender based on the latest research. She also examines the structure of the archaeology in her attempt to understand and change a discipline that has made women all but invisible both as researchers and objects of research. Honored as a Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Book, Nelson's work will continue to be the benchmark for archaeologists interested in gender as a subject of research and in the profession.
Author : Lori D. Hager
Release : 1997
Genre : History
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 331/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Women in Human Evolution by : Lori D. Hager
Download or read book Women in Human Evolution written by Lori D. Hager. This book was released on 1997. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of interest to all who work in the fields of anthropology, paleontology, anthropology and human biology, this book is the first to examine the role of women in the study of human evolution.
