Early Man Was a Woman: Reclaiming Prehistory

Here, in this captivating graphic history, are women—strong, powerful, intelligent, enterprising, inferior to no one—situated as never before at the heart of understanding our history, as far back as the Stone Age record can take us

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 millennia—...