Gender studies in archaeology
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Recent papers in Gender studies in archaeology
Kurgans Cultures of Bronze Age in the Northern Black Sea: The Potential of Gender Studies
MA Dissertation discussing the identity of women through Romano-British funerary inscriptions. Different types of women are discussed, such as Matrons, prostitutes and Late Iron Age women.
The present paper challenges the previously held view, that warfare is the domain of men. Looking at funerary inventories of the earlier Bronze Age of the Eastern Carpathian Basin of anthropologically identified women interments, the... more
Reconsideration of some previous archaeological interpretations of gender may offer much more variability and freedom to our current understanding of gender identity. The perception of gender in archaeological interpretations commonly... more
Die Rezension des beachtenswürdigen Sammelbands im Gedenken an die früh verstorbene Archäologin Brigitte Lohrke (06.08.1969–24.06.2008) setzt sich kritisch mit den 23 genderbezogenen Artikeln, die aus Archäologie, Anthropologie, Kultur-... more
This paper is about the origin of gender studies, the participation of feminism in the beginning of these studies, the development of gender archeology, this studies in Classical Antiquity and the development of gender archeology in Brazil.
This article explores gender identity in Levantine rock art. The basis on which scholars have, from the start of the 20th century untill now, systematically assumed a male authorship for this art will be examined. In addition, the methods... more
This study addresses the relative absence of archaeological considerations of gender and, specifically, the underrepresented role of women in the pre-contact period of the Southern Plateau. Ethnographic and ethnohistorical records are... more
Neumarkt an der Ybbs, a cemetery of the Böheimkirchen group of the Věteřov culture with particular attention paid to women- specific issues. Remains of a cemetery belonging to the Böheimkirchen group of the Věteřov culture were excavated... more
Stacey L. Camp. 2019. Fieldwork and Parenting in Archaeology. In Mothering from the Field: The Impact of Motherhood on Site-Based Research, edited by Bahiyyah M. Muhammad and Melanie-Angela Neuilly, pp. 27-42. New Brunswick, Camden, and... more
Recent years have witnessed a rising interest, worldwide, in the identification and interpretation of gender in the archaeological record. The purpose of the present study is the identification of women within the Iron Age II domestic... more
Although historical archaeologists often explore similar themes, the intellectual traditions in the United States and the United Kingdom lead to differing interpretations of these themes. The contributions to this innovative volume... more
Working in Archaeology means working with objects related to time and space, whereas social objects of research are much vaguer in their nature. However, their combination reveals a new cosmos of insights, and certainly also of... more
Matters of Gender in the history of the Kerameikos excavation cannot be seen and understood without the overall background of the development of archaeological research in Greece. Archaeological fieldwork in Greece was formed during the... more
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