Rolling back the milleniums

Richard Collins has discivered an educational comic book with a millenia’s old story and he’s here to tell you all about it.

A Day in the Life of a Neolithic Woman is an educational comic-book for children written by archaeologist Veronika Mikešová and illustrated by Michal Puhac.

Based on research carried out at Velim, near Kolin in central Bohemia, and ‘merging fact and fancy’, it tries to convey a sense of what life was like seven thousand years ago. This is not a new concept. Noune, Child of Prehistory, in a similar vein, first appeared in 1992 and is still available. Author Michael Valdis and illustrator Gemma Sales set their tale in Palaeolithic times, 10,000 years earlier.