Warrior Women: An Archaeologist's Search for History's Hidden Heroines
Was Herodotus's account of the Amazons fact or fiction? Archaeologist  Jeannine Davis-Kimball, inWarrior 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 Womenis, 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--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.