Before War: On Marriage, Hierarchy, and Our Matriarchal Origins

Book overview The book Before War will change how its readers look at the world — by exposing the female roots of Western civilization.

It draws on the evidence from anthropology, archaeology, linguistics, primatology, and the shocking new genetics data, to tell the story of Western civilization.For readers of Sapiens and The Dawn of Everything, this is about another way that our European ancestors lived, without violence, sexual shame, or social inequality.

It’sthe story of a story that was buried and re-discovered again and again, and is once again being told, thanks to the new science of genetics.