My work with Paleolithic perishables - the textile impressions and "Venus" figurines - as well as the work on the recognition of bone, ivory, and antler tools used to weave and to construct baskets and nets conducted this past May under IREX Short Term Travel Grant support - is dramatically diversifying our understanding of Upper Paleolithic lifeways. It is revealing not only the labor of the "unseen majority", but also giving us a social perspective on those lifeways, including insights into gender and status in prehistory.
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Olga Soffer, of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was a 2002-03 Short-Term Travel Grants [8] fellow.
Publication Date:
September 30, 2003
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