How to represent the women of Prehistory?

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Lady Sapiens, investigation of women in prehistoric times.

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By: Caroline Lachowsky

50 mins

So long erased from the picture, how can they be brought to light without falling into other clichés?

Questions opened by the film and the book “Lady sapiens, investigation of women in prehistoric times”.

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Let us go back in time and all our prejudices on the women of Prehistory, so long forgotten or erased from the hunting table .. Until recent advances in archeology, paleo and genetics, but especially in the mentalities of prehistorians and prehistorians reveal to us, with supporting evidence, what we had refused to think until then: that prehistoric man was also a woman, and what a woman! We imagined her weak, submissive and defenseless, and we discover her a powerful huntress mastering knowledge and the arts, adorned and revered: but how far will Lady Sapiens take us? 

With the three authors of the book 

Lady Sapiens, an investigation of women in prehistoric times

published by Éditions les Arènes, which is also the subject of a documentary film

Lady Sapiens

which will be broadcast on France 5:

  • Jennifer Kerner

    , teacher in prehistory at

    Paris-Nanterre University

    , in charge of Multimedia Communication at CNRS, associate researcher at the National Museum of Natural History and at the Musée de l'Homme in Paris.

  • Thomas Cirotteau

    , author and director.

    He directed the documentary 

    Who Killed Neanderthals?

  • Éric Pincas

    , historian, editor-in-chief of

    Historia

    magazine 

    .

    He is the author of the works 

    Who killed Neanderthals?

    and 

    Prehistory, truths and legends

    .

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