"When I was a student at Cambridge I remember an anthropology professor holding up a picture of a bone with 28 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 28 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 ill-iterate.
