By Elizabeth Wayland Barber. Explore the daily lives of women through prehistoric textiles. See how textiles influenced social status and sexuallity. The author uses the data gleaned from her research on prehistoric textiles to recreate the daily lives of women from 20,000 B.C. to 500 B.C. Since few textiles survived from so long ago, she draws her evidence from weaving and spinning tools, paintings on pottery and furniture, figurines, linguistic history, mythology and written accounts, and through correlations drawn between ancient techniques and those still practiced. You'll be fascinated by reconstructions of how women might have lived and worked. Black & white line drawings and photos of artifacts.

Softcover, 334 pages