false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174078110m/359139.jpg 359139 2 From Publishers Weekly While men dominated early agriculture, women for millennia took primary responsibility for sewing, weaving textiles and making clothing. In this beautifully illustrated study, Barber ( Prehistoric Textiles ) retrieves an important chapter in the history of civilization by drawing on archeological evidence, ancient texts, myths and linguistics to reconstruct women's paramount role in the fiber arts until the start of the late Bronze Age, about 1500 B.C., when, Barber observes, the advent of commercial textiles brought men to the looms. In prehistoric Europe, women invented elaborate textiles with complex designs; women of ancient Anatolia ran cloth-making establishments. Barber begins her saga with the description of a Paleolithic "Venus figure" that dates from about 20,000 B.C. and is carved wearing a skirt woven of loose strings. Ranging from Egypt to Greece to Sumatra, covering the period from 20,000-500 B.C., Barber illuminates women's changing social status as makers of cloth and clothing. 349262 1994 Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years : Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times total:81|5:44|4:27|3:9|2:1|1:0| 81 357 164 23 5 7 false false Sun Nov 30 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Nov 25 20:59:39 -0800 2008 Sun Nov 30 09:48:57 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 1 false false Mon Jul 16 01:16:59 -0700 2007 Mon Jul 16 09:46:02 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994 Wed May 16 05:59:30 -0700 2007 Wed May 16 06:33:02 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sat Nov 24 22:44:25 -0800 2007 Sat Nov 24 22:45:33 -0800 2007 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Wed Jul 22 15:32:52 -0700 2009 Wed Jul 22 15:40:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Oct 10 07:15:51 -0700 2007 Wed Jan 28 10:20:14 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Aug 19 13:45:57 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 19 13:55:24 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Jan 01 02:20:43 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 01 02:23:52 -0800 2009
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