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The Clan of the Cave Bear (Earth's Children, #1)
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avg rating 4.11 — 288,672 ratings — published 1980
The Valley of Horses (Earth's Children, #2)
by (shelved 34 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.05 — 98,771 ratings — published 1982
The Mammoth Hunters (Earth's Children, #3)
by (shelved 30 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 79,748 ratings — published 1985
The Plains of Passage (Earth's Children, #4)
by (shelved 22 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.87 — 63,499 ratings — published 1990
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,337,126 ratings — published 2011
The Shelters of Stone (Earth's Children, #5)
by (shelved 21 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 53,373 ratings — published 2002
People of the Wolf (North America's Forgotten Past, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.90 — 10,069 ratings — published 1990
Mother Earth Father Sky (Ivory Carver, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,878 ratings — published 1990
The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 44,261 ratings — published 2018
The Horse, the Wheel, and Language: How Bronze-Age Riders from the Eurasian Steppes Shaped the Modern World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,220 ratings — published 2007
Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 4,085 ratings — published 2020
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 474,976 ratings — published 1997
The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 29,230 ratings — published 2021
After the Ice: A Global Human History, 20,000-5000 BC (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,572 ratings — published 2003
The Land of Painted Caves (Earth's Children, #6)
by (shelved 9 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.47 — 38,284 ratings — published 2011
People of the Fire (North America's Forgotten Past, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 8,917 ratings — published 1991
Before the Dawn: Recovering the Lost History of Our Ancestors (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.99 — 4,721 ratings — published 2006
Reindeer Moon (Reindeer Moon, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,952 ratings — published 1987
My Sister the Moon (Ivory Carver, #2)
by (shelved 8 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 3,411 ratings — published 1992
Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,245 ratings — published 2017
Ancestral Journeys: The Peopling of Europe from the First Venturers to the Vikings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 748 ratings — published 2013
The Neanderthals Rediscovered: How Modern Science is Rewriting Their Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,565 ratings — published 2013
Wolf Brother (Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.21 — 30,090 ratings — published 2004
The Mind in the Cave: Consciousness and the Origins of Art (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 908 ratings — published 2002
She Who Remembers (Time Circle, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.04 — 8,620 ratings — published 1988
The Last Neanderthal (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.66 — 5,041 ratings — published 2017
Cro-Magnon: How the Ice Age Gave Birth to the First Modern Humans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.69 — 1,851 ratings — published 2010
Britain BC: Life in Britain and Ireland Before the Romans (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 847 ratings — published 2003
The Third Chimpanzee: The Evolution and Future of the Human Animal (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.09 — 29,111 ratings — published 1991
People of the Sea (North America's Forgotten Past, #5)
by (shelved 6 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,661 ratings — published 1993
People of the Earth (North America's Forgotten Past, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,310 ratings — published 1992
Brother Wind (Ivory Carver, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.22 — 2,306 ratings — published 1994
Otherlands: A Journey Through Earth's Extinct Worlds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.10 — 7,624 ratings — published 2022
Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,436 ratings — published 2021
Who We Are and How We Got Here: Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.14 — 6,424 ratings — published 2018
Neanderthal Man: In Search of Lost Genomes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.08 — 3,530 ratings — published 2014
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.15 — 82,482 ratings — published 2014
Shaman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.78 — 5,026 ratings — published 2013
Lone Survivors: How We Came to Be the Only Humans on Earth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,604 ratings — published 2011
Stonehenge (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.69 — 14,040 ratings — published 1999
People of the Lightning (North America's Forgotten Past, #7)
by (shelved 5 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,990 ratings — published 1995
People of the River (North America's Forgotten Past, #4)
by (shelved 5 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,560 ratings — published 1992
Atlas of a Lost World: Travels in Ice Age America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,032 ratings — published 2018
Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,283 ratings — published 1994
Dance of the Tiger: A Novel of the Ice Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.67 — 547 ratings — published 1978
Homo Britannicus: The Incredible Story of Human Life in Britain (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.93 — 324 ratings — published 2007
Inside the Neolithic Mind: Consciousness, Cosmos, and the Realm of the Gods (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.88 — 416 ratings — published 2005
Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as pre-history)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,363 ratings — published 2012
People of the Earth: An Introduction to World Prehistory (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.70 — 207 ratings — published 1974
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as pre-history)
avg rating 3.97 — 32,272 ratings — published 2010
“For within the very structure of family life, in families that do or did embrace the male religions, are the almost invisibly accepted social customs and life patterns that reflect the one-time strict adherence to the biblical scriptures. Attitudes towards double-standard premarital virginity, double-standard marital fidelity, the sexual autonomy of women, illegitimacy, abortion, contraception, rape, childbirth, the importance of marriage and children to women, the responsibilities and role of women in marriage, women as sex objects, the sexual identification of passivity and aggressiveness, the roles of women and men in work or social situations, women who express their ideas, female leadership, the intellectual activities of women, the economic activities and needs of women and the automatic assumption of the male as breadwinner and protector have all become so deeply ingrained that feelings and values concerning these subjects are often regarded, by both women and men, as natural tendencies or even human instinct.”
― When God Was a Woman
― When God Was a Woman
“It is also more than likely that women invented that most fundamental of all material technologies, without which civilization could not have evolved: the domestication of plants and animals. In fact, even though this is hardly ever mentioned in the books and classes where we learn history of "ancient man", most scholars today agree that this is probably how it was. They note that in contemporary gatherer-hunter societies, women, not men, are typically in charge of processing food. It would thus have been more likely that it was women who first dropped seeds on the ground of their encampments, and also began to tame young animals by feeding and caring for them as they did for their own young. Anthropologists also point to the fact that in the primarily horticultural economies of "developing" tribes and nations, contrary to Western assumptions, the cultivation of the soil is to this day primarily in the hands of women.”
― The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
― The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future
