Gender and the Archaeology of Death

by Arnold, Bettina; Wicker, Nancy L.

• ISBN13: 9780759101371
• ISBN10: 075910137X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-06-20
• Publisher: AltaMira Press

Summary

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

Table of Contents

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