Ulli Lust

History is written by the victors, and the victors are men. This assumption colours 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—immortalised in bone, stone, and fired clay—archaeologists find: women. From 40,000 years ago until the birth of Christ, statuettes...