Public release date: 5-Feb-2007 Contact: Andrea Lynn andreal@uiuc.edu 217-333-2177 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Women have played major role in history -- from the start, authors assert CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Hold on to your bearskin hats and your macramé snoods, readers: You are in for a wild verbal ride through your deep, deep past. The authors of a new book have fashioned a 16-chapter prehistory theme park worthy of Disney, but in their confection, lame, even egregious, past assumptions about our past are hunted down and slain, and stars – in the form of womankind – are born. "The Invisible...