the status of women in a society depends in large measure on their role in the economy. The reinterpretation of the Paleolithic past center on new views of the role of women in the food-foraging economy. Amassing critical and previously overlooked evidence from Dolni Vestonice and the neighboring site of Pavlov, researchers Olga Soffer, James Adovasio, and David Hyland now propose that human survival there had the little to do with men hurling spears at big game animal.