Women were hunters, athletes, and important political figures, among other things.
May 14, 2021
A reconstruction of a Wilamaya Patjxa vicuña hunt by artist Matthew Verdolivo, UC Davis IET Academic Technology Services. Courtesy Randall Haas.
We like to think we know what our ancient female forebears were like. Yet a spate of recent discoveries confirms the truth: that we really have no idea.
Clues from ancient texts and archaeological studies can give us a succinct picture of the important roles women have always played (and almost always without applause). So to give them their due, we rounded up a list of the major achievements of ancient women, the original revolutionaries subverting the gender roles we have in place today.
La femme préhistorique reprend sa place
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Préhistoire: nos ancêtres, les chasseresses - Histoire
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All are fascinating. Here’s a roundup of what we learned.
Egyptian Minister of Antiquities and Tourism Khaled El Anany. Photo: Mohammed Fouad/dpa via Getty Images.
But the biggest news in Egyptian archaeology this year was undoubtedly the excavation of over 100 painted sarcophagi in Saqqara, an ancient burial ground south of Cairo.
Stonehenge. Photo courtesy of English Heritage.
Now, thanks to a core sample drilled during a mid-century repair job the 90-year-old who did the job recently returned it to the UK experts have determined that the ancient monument’s outer ring of sarsens, which weigh as much as 30 tons, come from chalk hills of Marlborough Downs, 15 miles away.
A la préhistoire, les chasseuses du début des Amériques
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