In the canon of prehistory, men are the constant focal point, depicted hunting, striking flint, or painting caves. Yet nearly all of the images that depict humans, left to us by prehistoric humans themselves, are depictions of women. What kind of societies were these that portrayed women so centrally, and what can they tell us about the ways in which our perception of gender has evolved—or devolved?
Building on years of research, Ulli Lust crafts a vastly scaled graphic history about the beginnings of art, the evolution of womanhood, and the importance of empathy for the survival of our species. Going back to the beginning of humanity, Lust draws on scientific findings in archaeology, anthropology, art history, and her own lived experience to illustrate how the role of women in human history has remained largely underrepresented.
In her signature style of intricate illustrations and comprehensive storyboards, Ulli Lust breaks down long-entrenched beliefs and unearths a fresh approach to the intersection of culture and gender, depicting a time in which the hero’s journey was a group effort that could only be completed together—by women, men, children, and even nonbinary people, in roles that run the gamut of human experience.
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Ulli Lust, 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.
The original edition of Early Man Was a Woman, 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 Today Is the Last Day of the Rest of Your Life garnered international acclaim and won the Los Angeles Times Book Award and the Ignatz Award. Her subsequent books include How I Tried to Be a Good Person and Voices in the Dark, based on the novel by Marcel Beyer.
She teaches drawing and comics at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences and Arts.
Elizabeth Lauffer is a German-English literary translator based in the US.
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Hardback. Zustand: New. History is written by the victors, and the victors are men. This assumption colors our view of every past era: The fittest survive. The strongest rule. "Human nature" is intrinsically warlike.The record tells a different story.Across 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.Why did our prehistoric ancestors portray women so consistently, so predominantly? And what does this tell us about how our societies have evolved-or devolved?In 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 survival-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.Magisterially conceived, intensively researched, brilliantly executed, Early Man Was a Woman is a towering achievement.The translation of this book was supported by a grant from the Goethe-Institut. Artikel-Nr. LU-9798893031379
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Hardback. Zustand: New. History is written by the victors, and the victors are men. This assumption colors our view of every past era: The fittest survive. The strongest rule. "Human nature" is intrinsically warlike.The record tells a different story.Across 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.Why did our prehistoric ancestors portray women so consistently, so predominantly? And what does this tell us about how our societies have evolved-or devolved?In 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 survival-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.Magisterially conceived, intensively researched, brilliantly executed, Early Man Was a Woman is a towering achievement.The translation of this book was supported by a grant from the Goethe-Institut. Artikel-Nr. LU-9798893031379
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