Riot’s Reviews > Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times > Status Update

“But forty thousand years ago, as the great ice sheets that had covered the northern continents retreated by fits and starts, humans started to invent and make new things at a tremendous rate, like a slow-ascending firecracker that suddenly explodes into a thousand sparks of varied color, shooting in a thousand directions.”

Be still my beating heart.