{"product_id":"early-man-was-a-woman-reclaiming-prehistory-early-man-was-a-woman-1-1st-ed","title":"Early Man Was a Woman: Reclaiming Prehistory (Early Man Was a Woman #1) (1ST ed.)","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Shame\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSocial Behavior in Great Apes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDaughters and Sons of the First Humans\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eToday Everything is Different\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA Snake in Paradise\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe Human Color\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCold Grassland\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe First Sculptors\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHuman Bones\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMammoths\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHunters\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTide\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ol\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAn intimate and imaginative follow-up graphic memoir to Lust's Ignatz award-winning punk travelogue.-- \"Publishers Weekly\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThis comic is a sensation. Ulli Lust has a story to tell that is unparalleled.--Andreas Platthaus, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t[ \n\u003cem\u003eEarly Man Was a Woman\u003c\/em\u003e] offers a completely new perspective on our prehistory and early history. And this perspective is feminine.--Nina Apin, taz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tLust's energetic, searching book . . . reveals the power of desire--and the pain when jealousy rears its head.-- \"The Guardian\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePraise for \u003cem\u003eToday Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eHow I Tried to Be a Good Person\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"[A] sprawling, meditative graphic novel . . . [that] ripples with exuberance: [Lust] convincingly evokes her teenage feelings of fury and joy, and the small details of the way she experienced unfamiliar places for the first time.--Douglas Wolk, The New York Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Max \u0026amp; Moritz Award for Best Non Fiction Comic\u003cbr\u003e International Bestseller\u003cbr\u003e Winner of the 2025 German Nonfiction Prize\u003cbr\u003e Published in More Than 10 Languages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"An entertaining, whimsically drawn prehistory focused on human cooperation and creative effort. . . . Lust's fluid, naturalistic art, colored in warm earth tones, vividly evokes the paleolithic world. Details ranging from burial sites to herds of woolly mammoths showcase her extensive research. It's an illuminating look into what makes humans human.--Publishers Weekly, starred review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPraise for the German edition of \n\u003cem\u003eEarly Man Was a Woman\u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \"The time has long since arrived when such books must be written. Ulli Lust captivates readers and draws them deeply into the social life of early humans . . . [creating] a compelling mix for reflection on our understanding of 'womanhood.'--Christine Neugebauer-Maresch, Institute of Prehistory and Historical Archaeology at the University of Vienna\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003eHistory is written by the victors, and the victors are men.\u003c\/em\u003e This assumption colors our view of every past era: The fittest survive. The strongest rule. \"Human nature\" is intrinsically warlike. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe record tells a different story. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAcross the globe, over millennia--immortalized in bone, stone, and fired clay--archaeologists find: women. From 40,000 years ago until the birth of Christ, statuettes of women--in poses totally free of shame--overwhelmingly outnumber depictions of men. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhy did our prehistoric ancestors portray women so consistently, so predominantly? And what does this tell us about how our societies have evolved--or \u003cem\u003edevolved?\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eIn immersive imagery and sweeping sequences, award-winning author and artist Ulli Lust ranges with grace across archaeology, anthropology, art history, and her own lived experience to \"reset\" the human narrative. She brings to vivid life the prehistoric people whose greatest victory was sheer \u003cem\u003esurvival\u003c\/em\u003e--a group effort achieved by women, men, children, and nonbinary people--in societies far more egalitarian than we, their modern descendants, have dared to imagine. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMagisterially conceived, intensively researched, brilliantly executed, \u003cem\u003eEarly Man Was a Woman\u003c\/em\u003e is a towering achievement--a profound retelling of the human story--from the very beginning to today. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eContributor Bio:\u003c\/strong\u003eLust, Ulli\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eUlli Lust\u003c\/strong\u003e, born in Vienna in 1967, is an award-winning comic artist and illustrator. The German edition of this book, published in 2025, won that year's 25,000 German Nonfiction Prize, awarded by Germany's publishers and booksellers association--the first time a graphic-format book was awarded the prize. \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e The original edition of \n\u003cem\u003eEarly Man Was a Woman\u003c\/em\u003e, Book 2 (forthcoming from The Experiment) was awarded the 2026 Max Und Moritz Award for Best Non-fiction Comic, the most important award for graphic literature in German-speaking countries. Her graphic memoir \n\u003cem\u003eToday Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life\u003c\/em\u003e garnered international acclaim and won the \n\u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e Book Award and the Ignatz Award. 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