The famous Venus of Willendorf was often used as a kind of Stone Age sex symbol. But who were the people who created them? And what did she mean to them? This is what the Austrian illustrator and author Ulli Lust asks herself in the continuation of her large-scale research into the role of women in cultural history. The non-fiction comic Woman as a human being: shamans delves back into the Ice Age and unfolds the story from a previously often overlooked perspective: the female one.
