A Companion to Gender Prehistory

An authoritative guide on gender prehistory for researchers,
instructors and students in anthropology, archaeology, and gender
studies

• Provides the most up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of gender
  archaeology, with an exclusive focus on prehistory

• Offers critical overviews of developments in the
  archaeology of gender over the last 30 years, as well as
  assessments of current trends and prospects for future
  research

• Focuses on recent Third Wave approaches to the study of gender
  in early human societies, challenging heterosexist biases,
  and investigating the interfaces between gender and
  status, age, cognition, social memory, performativity, the
  body, and sexuality

• Features numerous regional and thematic topics authored by
  established specialists in the field, with incisive
  coverage of gender research in prehistoric and protohistoric
  cultures of Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas and the Pacific

Auteur

Diane Bolger is a Research Fellow in Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. In addition to her research on gender, she specializes in the ceramics of early agricultural societies in the ancient Near East, particularly in Cyprus, where she has been involved in fieldwork since the early 1980s. Her major publications on gender include three books: Gender in Ancient Cyprus (2003), Engendering Aphrodite: Women and Society in Ancient Cyprus (2002), and Gender through Time in the Ancient Near East (2008).

Résumé
An authoritative guide on gender prehistory for researchers, instructors and students in anthropology, archaeology, and gender studies

• Provides the most up-to-date, comprehensive coverage of gender archaeology, with an exclusive focus on prehistory
• Offers critical overviews of developments in the archaeology of gender over the last 30 years, as well as assessments of current trends and prospects for future research
• Focuses on recent Third Wave approaches to the study of gender in early human societies, challenging heterosexist biases, and investigating the interfaces between gender and status, age, cognition, social memory, performativity, the body, and sexuality
• Features numerous regional and thematic topics authored by established specialists in the field, with incisive coverage of gender research in prehistoric and protohistoric cultures of Africa, Asia, Europe, the Americas and the Pacific

Contenu

List of Illustrations x

List of Tables xiii

Notes on Contributors xiv

Acknowledgments xxii

Introduction: Gender Prehistory - The Story So Far 1

Diane Bolger

Part I Thematic Perspectives in Gender Prehistory 21

Section 1 Current Themes and Debates 21

1 Engendering Human Evolution 23

Adrienne Zihlman

2 Gender, Complexity, and Power in Prehistory 45

Scott R. Hutson, Bryan K. Hanks, and K. Anne Pyburn

3 Archaeology of Embodied Subjectivities 68

Teresa Dujnic Bulger and Rosemary A. Joyce

4 Queer Prehistory: Bodies, Performativity, and Matter 86

Benjamin Alberti

5 The Future of Gender in Prehistoric Archaeology 108

Margaret W. Conkey

Section 2 Gender and Prehistoric Material Culture 121

6 Gender and Prehistoric Rock Art 122

Kelley Hays-Gilpin

7 Gender and Lithic Studies in Prehistoric Archaeology 142

Nyree Finlay

8 Gender, Labor, and Pottery Production in Prehistory 161

Diane Bolger

9 Gender and Textile Production in Prehistory 180

Cathy Lynne Costin

Section 3 Gendered Bodies and Identities in Prehistory
203

10 Personhood in Prehistory: A Feminist Archaeology in Ten
Persons 204

Yvonne Marshall

11 Bioarchaeological Approaches to the Gendered Body 226

Joanna Sofaer

12 Figurines, Corporeality, and the Origins of the Gendered Body
244

Douglass W. Bailey

13 Goddesses in Prehistory 265

Lucy Goodison and Christine Morris

Part II Regional Perspectives in Gender Prehistory
289

Section 4 Gender Prehistory in Africa and Asia 289

14 Gender in North African Prehistory 291

Barbara E. Barich

15 Gender in the Prehistory of Sub-Saharan Africa 313

Lyn Wadley

16 Gender and Archaeology in Coastal East Asia 333

Sarah Milledge Nelson

17 Gender Archaeology in East Asia and Eurasia 351

Katheryn M. Linduff and Karen S. Rubinson

18 Gender in Southwest Asian Prehistory 372

Diane Bolger and Rita P. Wright

Section 5 Gender in European Prehistory 395

19 The History of Gender Archaeology in Northern Europe
396

Marie Louise Stig Sørensen

20 Gender in Eastern European Prehistory 413

John Chapman and Nona Palincaº

21 Gender and Feminism in the Prehistoric Archaeology of
Southwest Europe 438

Margarita Díaz-Andreu and Sandra
Montón-Subías

22 Gender in British Prehistory 458

Benjamin Edwards and Rachel Pope

23 Gender in Central Mediterranean Prehistory 480

Ruth Whitehouse

24 Gender in Greek and Aegean Prehistory 502

Louise Hitchcock and Marianna Nikolaidou

Section 6 Gender Prehistory in the Americas and the South
Pacific 526

25 Gender in the Prehistory of the Eastern United States
527

Cheryl Claassen

26 The Archaeology of Gender in Western North America 544

Alice Beck Kehoe

27 The Archaeology of Gender in Mesoamerica: Moving Beyond
Gender Complementarity 564

Elizabeth M. Brumfiel

28 Gender in South American Prehistory 585

Melissa A. Vogel and Robyn E. Cutright

29 Gender and Archaeology in Australia, Papua New Guinea, and
the South Pacific 608

Cherrie De Leiuen

Index 628