Planet One

When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with twenty-eight incisions carved in it. “This is often considered to be man’s first attempt at a calendar,” she explained. She paused as we dutifully wrote this down. “My question to you is this – what man needs to mark twenty-eight days? I would suggest to you that this is woman’s first attempt at a calendar.”

It was a moment that changed my life. In that second I stopped to question almost everything I had been taught about the past. How often had I overlooked women’s contributions?

Sandi Toksvig (via jona-vark, learninglog) (via mattie) (via typicrobots) (via bilius) (via wasikowskas)

My moment was in religious studies. Women as some of the first and most prominent priests and conversionists.

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