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Invisible Women of Prehistory Three Million Years of Peace, Six Thousand Years of War

We often think of history as a linear development in which we are steadily moving out of a violent and patriarchal past to a more equitable and peaceful future. While we have no shortage of wars - and the incidence of violence against women is alarmingly high - we are told that humans have never lived in such peaceful times, that our predecessors were violent, and that patriarchy is inevitable and universal. But what if none of this were true, and we are descended from peaceful societies in which women were respected and equal to men? Based on m.

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