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...there was only indirect evidence of communal hunting in Paleolithic times until archaeologist Olga Soffer came across the kind of clue that, a gender traditionalist might say, it took a womanly eye to notice. While sifting through clay fragments from the Paleolithic site of Pavlov in what is now the Czech Republic, she found a series of parallel lines impressed on some of the clay surfaces--evidence of woven fibers from about 25,000 years ago. Intrigued to find signs of weaving from this early date, Soffer and her colleagues examined 8,400 more clay fragments from the same...
...news of Soffer's discovery, which is too recent to have found its way into Angier's or Hales' book, will disconcert many feminists as well as sociobiologists. After all, the gratifying thing about man-the-hunter was that he helped locate all the violence and related mischief on the men's side of the campfire: no blood on our hands! But there are other reasons to doubt the eternal equation of masculinity with aggression and violence, femininity with gentleness and a taste for green salads. In ancient Greece and Sumer the deities of the hunt, Artemis and Ninhursag, were...
Filling out the list of outstanding freshmen wrestlers are Adam Griesmer, James Butera, Gaddy Soffer and the versatile Hollis Waite, who wrestled in several weight classes for the Crimson...
Nobody can do more than speculate about the answer. That uncertainty, along with the spottiness of the archaeological record-even in an intensively studied area like southern France-makes it hard to know whether art, once invented, was a universal practice. Probably not, argues archaeologist Olga Soffer, of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: "Art is a social phenomenon that appears and disappears and, in some places, may not arise at all." But many anthropologists counter that the term art is usually defined too narrowly. What paleolithic humans really invented, they say, is symbolic representation, and by that definition...
Associate Director of Labor Relations CarolynR. Young '76 declined to comment on Harvard'soffer to the police. She did say other unions,some of whom finished their bargaining only a fewmonths ago, received "an average [raise] ofsomewhere between three percent or less...