Gender and the Archaeology of Death

Edited volume on what archaeological mortuary analysis can tell researchers about gender relations in the ancient world.

Introduction

vii

Bettina Arnold

Nancy L. Wicker

Gender Ideology and Mortuary Analysis

Killing the Female? Archaeological Narratives of Infanticide

1

(22)

Eleanor Scott

Life, Death, and the Longhouse: A Gendered View of Oneota Social Organization

23

(28)

Jodie A. O'Gorman

Gender Studies in Chinese Neolithic Archaeology

51

(14)

Tianlong Jiao

Gender and Power

Visible Women Made Invisible: Interpreting Varangian Women in Old Russia

65

(16)

Anne Stalsberg

The Position of Iron Age Scandinavian Women: Evidence from Graves and Rune Stones

81

(24)

Anne-Sofie Graslund

Gender Roles and the Ambiguity of Signification

Gender and Mortuary Analysis: What Can Grave Goods Really Tell Us?

105

(14)

Barbara A. Crass

Sharing the Load: Gender and Task Division at the Windover Site

119

(18)

Christine Hamlin

Grave Goods Do Not a Gender Make: A Case Study from Singen am Hohentwiel, Germany

137

(22)

Emily Weglian

Weapons, Women, Warriors

Decoding the Gender Bias: Inferences of Atlatls in Female Mortuary Contexts

159

(20)

Dianna L. Doucette

Warfare and Gender in the Northern Plains: Osteological Evidence of Trauma Reconsidered

179

(16)

Sandra E. Hollimon

Index

195

(6)

About the Contributors

201

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Gender and the Archaeology of Death

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