Olga Soffer obituary

Professor of anthropology whose approach to archaeology centred on crafts executed by women 40,000 years ago Olga Soffer, who has died aged 83, brought a revolutionary idea into the conversation about prehistoric ice age people: women mattered. Inspired when working on archaeological excavations in the former USSR, and by remains from a dig in Moravia, in the 1990s she presented a case for women as makers of textiles, baskets and nets, critical to survival in bleak northern conditions 30,000 ...

By Mike Pitts