Early Man Was a Woman (Hardcover)
Language: English
Published by The Experiment LLC, New York, 2026
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Hardcover. History is written by the victors, and the victors are men. This assumption colors our view of every past era: The fittest survive. The strongest rule. Human nature is intrinsically warlike.The record tells a different story.Across the globe, over millenniaimmortalized in bone, stone, and fired clayarchaeologists find: women. From 40,000 years ago until the birth of Christ, statuettes of womenin poses totally free of shameoverwhelmingly outnumber depictions of men.Why did our prehistoric ancestors portray women so consistently, so predominantly? And what does this tell us about how our societies have evolvedor devolved?In 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 survivala group effort achieved by women, men, children, and nonbinary peoplein societies far more egalitarian than we, their modern descendants, have dared to imagine.Magisterially conceived, intensively researched, brilliantly executed, Early Man Was a Woman is a towering achievement.The translation of this book was supported by a grant from the Goethe-Institut. An expansive, rigorously researched journey back in time to prehistoric womanhoodin richly illustrated graphic novel formto understand how art and science have informed our perception of gender from the prehistoric age to the twenty-first century Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- Early Man Was a Woman (Hardcover)
- Author
- Ulli Lust
- Publisher
- The Experiment LLC, New York
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798893031379
In the canon of prehistory, men are the constant focal point, depicted hunting, striking flint, or painting caves. Yet nearly all of the images that depict humans, left to us by prehistoric humans themselves, are depictions of women. What kind of societies were these that portrayed women so centrally, and what can they tell us about the ways in which our perception of gender has evolved—or devolved?
Building on years of research, Ulli Lust crafts a vastly scaled graphic history about the beginnings of art, the evolution of womanhood, and the importance of empathy for the survival of our species. Going back to the beginning of humanity, Lust draws on scientific findings in archaeology, anthropology, art history, and her own lived experience to illustrate how the role of women in human history has remained largely underrepresented.
In her signature style of intricate illustrations and comprehensive storyboards, Ulli Lust breaks down long-entrenched beliefs and unearths a fresh approach to the intersection of culture and gender, depicting a time in which the hero’s journey was a group effort that could only be completed together—by women, men, children, and even nonbinary people, in roles that run the gamut of human experience.
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