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Women in Paleolithic times
WOMEN AS THE SPIRITUAL CORE
OF HOMO SAPIENS EMERGENCE
Printed pages: 80 pages;
Éditions La Dondaine: January 8, 2020;
Sold by: Amazon, Kindle edition;
Language: English;
ASIN: B083P5XT6R.
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Alexander Marshack’s book was first written in 1968 and published soon after. The present edition I have explored was entirely re-edited and upgraded by the author in 1991. The research, and the fieldwork, for this book, were done essentially after the Second World War at a time when new techniques and technology were emerging in archaeological research. Marshack assumed what was available and used that the best he could, and as such was able to bring Ice Age archaeology to a new level of understanding. But we must not measure what he wrote and published with the criteria and parameters we can use today in this field where technology and actual research have been speeding up so fast over the last ten or twenty years that have brought up more than the previous seventy years. Yet we…