Warrior Women: An Archaeologist's Search for History's Hidden Heroines - Softcover

Davis-Kimball PhD, Jeannine; Behan, Mona

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0446679836 ISBN 13: 9780446679831

Publisher: Warner Books, 2003

Synopsis

Davis-Kimball weaves science, mythology and mystical cultures into a bold new historical tapestry of female warriors, heroines and leaders who have been left out of the history books-- until now.

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Review:

Was Herodotus's account of the Amazons fact or fiction? Archaeologist Jeannine Davis-Kimball, in Warrior Women, an account of her digs at burial sites of Eurasian nomads, finds it an embellishment of the former. But, she posits, women's place in that world was generally more exalted than previously thought.

Nearly one-quarter of the women buried in some late Iron Age sites were either warriors or priestesses. Even the remainder, "hearth women," were important players in the tribes' surprisingly egalitarian societies. Further, southern Kazakhstan's famous "gold man" was in fact, a "gold woman." Davis-Kimball also finds solid evidence of "high status" women in graves as far east as China and as far west as Ireland.

Warrior Women is, thankfully, free of lazy sensationalism. But it is frustratingly organized, with little regard to either chronology or geography. Further, Davis-Kimball never places her finds in any sort of context, be it popular or scholarly. --H. O'Billovitch

About the Author:

Davis-Kimball was a mother of 6 and a nurse before earning her PhD in Archaelogy and Art History from Berkeley.She has made numerous scientific discoveries about gender culture.

About this edition

• Publisher: Warner Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0446679836
• ISBN 13: 9780446679831
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288