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Elizabeth Wayland Barber
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“So powerful, in fact, is simple string in taming the world to human will and ingenuity that I suspect it to be the unseen weapon that allowed the human race to conquer the earth, that enabled us to move out into every econiche on the globe during the Upper Paleolithic. We could call it the String Revolution.”
― 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
“I have also paid some attention to what language can tell us. Messages perish as they are uttered, but language itself is remarkably durable. Sometimes it preserves useful clues to a more abstract and thought-oriented part of the human past than material artifacts do.”
― 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
“Words, as. it happens, sometimes survive the millennia better than material objects, and they do so best in areas in which the culture changed only very slowly - as in the far north, where the intense winter cold discouraged immigrants.”
― 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
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