Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times by Elizabeth Wayland Barber
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This really helped consolidate my knowledge of the development of human civilization. Its use of language along with archeological evidence reinforces the research I’ve pursued on language origins.
As a world builder of science fiction and fantasy, Barber’s research fills in the rest of the story that stone & metallic artifacts do not disclose. Moreover, the author gets hands on and reconstructs the crafts of the past. Altogether, it is a brilliant endeavor.