{"product_id":"early-man-was-a-woman-reclaiming-prehistory-9798893031379","title":"Early Man Was a Woman: Reclaiming Prehistory","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eHistory is written by the victors, and the victors are men.\u003c\/em\u003e This assumption colors our view of every past era: The fittest survive. The strongest rule. \"Human nature\" is intrinsically warlike. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe record tells a different story. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcross the globe, over millennia--immortalized in bone, stone, and fired clay--archaeologists find: women. From 40,000 years ago until the birth of Christ, statuettes of women--in poses totally free of shame--overwhelmingly outnumber depictions of men. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy did our prehistoric ancestors portray women so consistently, so predominantly? And what does this tell us about how our societies have evolved--or \u003cem\u003edevolved?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eIn immersive imagery and sweeping sequences, award-winning author and artist Ulli Lust ranges with grace across archaeology, anthropology, art history, and her own lived experience to \"reset\" the human narrative. She brings to vivid life the prehistoric people whose greatest victory was sheer \u003cem\u003esurvival\u003c\/em\u003e--a group effort achieved by women, men, children, and nonbinary people--in societies far more egalitarian than we, their modern descendants, have dared to imagine. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMagisterially conceived, intensively researched, brilliantly executed, \u003cem\u003eEarly Man Was a Woman\u003c\/em\u003e is a towering achievement--a profound retelling of the human story--from the very beginning to today. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Experiment\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798893031379\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256","brand":"Ulli Lust","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52774211649717,"sku":"9798893031379","price":25.46,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/early-man-was-a-woman-reclaiming-prehistory-9798893031379","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}