How to represent the women of Prehistory?
Audio 48:30
Lady Sapiens, investigation of women in prehistoric times.
© The Arenas
By: Caroline Lachowsky
1 min
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".
(Replay of September 28, 2021)
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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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