Jake Page

J. M. Adovasio

Olga Soffer

Uncovering the True Roles of Women in Prehistory

The Invisible Sex

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. 20,000 first printing.

Kurt William Carr

Recent Research in Pennsylvania Archaeology, Number 2 Kurt W. Carr and James M. Adovasio, eds. 2002. This volume touches on many of the issues that are paramount in Paleoindian studies today, and will be of interest to archaeologists. It includes papers from a wide range of archaeologists that address a diverse group of subjects relating to Paleoindian culture, settlement patterns, and archaeological sites.

Ice Age Peoples of Pennsylvania

李旭影

看不见的性别

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.

J. M. Adovasio

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