Spinifex Press Invisible women of prehistory: three million years of peace, six thousand years of war, paperback/judy foster

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Contributor(s):Author: Judy Foster Author: Marlene Derlet Based on many years of research into ancient history and prehistory, this insightful tome argues that three million years of peace--a period when women's status in society was much higher than it is now--preceded the last 6, 000 years of war during which men have come to hold power over women.

The book challenges the idea accepted in academia that history is a linear development in which society is steadily moving out of a violent and patriarchal past to a more equitable and peaceful future, and it reexamines both the archaeological work of Marjia Gimbutas and recent research into the prehistories of Africa, Asia, the Americas, and Australia and Oceania.