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

by J. M. Adovasio, Olga Soffer, Jake Page

Overview

Two leading archeologists challenge assumptions about mankind's earliest days, arguing that women played a central role in the development of language and social life—in short, in our becoming human.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138404656
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/27/2017
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

J. M. Adovasio, Ph.D., is the founder and director of the Mercyhurst Archaeological Institute in Erie, Pennsylvania. He is the author of The First Americans (with Jake Page).

Olga Soffer, formerly a fashion industry insider, is a professor of anthropology at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Jake Page was the founding editor of Doubleday's Natural History Press, as well as editorial director of Natural History magazine and science editor of Smithsonian magazine. He has written more than forty books on the natural sciences, zoological topics, and Native American affairs, as well as mystery fiction. He and his wife live in northern Colorado with six dogs and a steady supply of dog hair, available free.

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

Editorial Reviews

THE INVISIBLE SEX is science writing at its best. ...you don’t even realize how much you are learning.” — —Jean M. Auel

“A fascinating book… engaging and readable. It will be much quoted and used.” — -Brian Fagan, author of People of the Earth

“The biased guessing in a lot of old-school anthropology comes in for some pointed ridicule in THE INVISIBLE SEX.” — —Salon.com

From the Publisher

The biased guessing in a lot of old-school anthropology comes in for some pointed ridicule in THE INVISIBLE SEX.

Salon.com

A fascinating book… engaging and readable. It will be much quoted and used.

Brian Fagan

THE INVISIBLE SEX is science writing at its best. ...you don’t even realize how much you are learning.

Jean M. Auel