Gender and the archaeology of death / edited by Bettina Arnold and Nancy L. Wicker

Object Details

Author

Arnold, Bettina

Wicker, Nancy L

Contents

Killing the female? Archaeological narratives of infanticide / Eleanor Scott -- Life, death, and the longhouse: a gendered view of Oneota social organization / Jodie A. O'Gorman -- Gender studies in Chinese Neolithic archaeology / Tianlong Jiao -- Visible women made invisible: interpreting Varangian women in old Russia / Anne Stalsberg -- The position of Iron Age Scandinavian women: evidence from graves and rune stones / Anne-Sofie Gräslund -- Gender and mortuary analysis: what can grave goods really tell us? / Barbara A. Crass -- Sharing the load: gender and task division at the Windover Site / Christine Hamlin -- Grave goods do not a gender make: a case study from Singen am Hohentwiel, Germany / Emily Weglian -- Decoding the gender bias: inferences of atlatls in female mortuary contexts / Dianna L. Doucette -- Warfare and gender in the Northern Plains: osteological evidence of trauma reconsidered / Sandra E. Hollimon

2001

C2001

Type

Books

Physical description

xxi, 203 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm

Smithsonian Libraries

Topic

Social archaeology

Sex role--History

Funeral rites and ceremonies--History

Death--Social aspects--History

Human remains (Archaeology)

Excavations (Archaeology)

Ethnoarchaeology

Feminist archaeology

Women, Prehistoric

Record ID

siris_sil_716225

Metadata Usage (text)

CC0