J.M. ADOVASIO

Un lúcido ensayo que propone una tésis arriesgada y novedosa que busca devolver a la mujer el papel que le corresponde en el origen de la especie. Lejos de ser sumisas esclavas sexuales que se sentaban alrededor de la hoguera esperando a que los hombres volvieran de caza, las mujeres del Paleolítico eran miembros activos de la comunidad. Ellas eran las encargadas de fabricar los instrumentos de caza y fueron gestoras claves del desarrollo del lenguaje y los modos de comportamiento social.Un ensayo sobre un tema polémico, el rol de la mujer en la Prehistoria, que enlaza con libros que son éxito de ventas, al estilo de El cerebro femenino. Un excelente ensayo en tono ameno y divulgativo.

J. M. Adovasio has spent the last thirty years at the center of one of our most fiery scientific debates: Who were the first humans in the Americas, and how and when did they get there? At its heart, The First Americans is the story of the revolution in thinking that Adovasio and his fellow archaeologists have brought about, and the firestorm it has ignited. As he writes, The work of lifetimes has been put at risk, reputations have been damaged, an astounding amount of silliness and even profound stupidity has been taken as serious thought, and always lurking in the background of all the argumentation and gnashing of tenets has been the question of whether the field of archaeology can ever be pursued as a science.