We’ve been taught that men were the only ones doing anything worthwhile in prehistory. Theirstory introduces the female anthropologists who dared to ask, “Where’s the other half of the species?”

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The film takes viewers on an eye-opening and at times humorous journey through a dizzying array of archival footage, location shooting, stop-motion animation, and incisive interviews to ask how a reconfiguring of past gender assumptions – such as man the hunter and woman the gatherer - can radically change the ingrained beliefs we hold about who we are and where we come from. ​