Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

Women's Work: The First 20,000 Years: Women, Cloth, and Society in Early Times

New discoveries about the textile arts reveal women's unexpectedly influential role in ancient societies.

Twenty thousand years ago, women were making and wearing the first clothing created from spun f…

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