Companion to Gender Prehistory

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).

“In short, as this volume shows us, there is no doubt that the gender perspective has been the strongest theoretical and methodological stimulus for the study of prehistory during the last decades. Adopting such a perspective provides a much more complex panorama of prehistoric societies than that which has been described to date. Such a panorama is, in turn, infinitely more stimulating.”  (European Journal of Archaeology, 1 March 2014)“Part 2's strength is its global breadth, with most contributors offering a synthesized and regionally bounded historiography of gender studies. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.”  (Choice, 1 July 2013)

• List of Illustrations xList of Tables xiiiNotes on Contributors xivAcknowledgments xxiiIntroduction: Gender Prehistory – The Story So Far 1Diane BolgerPart I Thematic Perspectives in Gender Prehistory 21Section 1 Current Themes and Debates 211 Engendering Human Evolution 23Adrienne Zihlman2 Gender, Complexity, and Power in Prehistory 45Scott R. Hutson, Bryan K. Hanks, and K. Anne Pyburn3 Archaeology of Embodied Subjectivities 68Teresa Dujnic Bulger and Rosemary A. Joyce4 Queer Prehistory: Bodies, Performativity, and Matter 86Benjamin Alberti5 The Future of Gender in Prehistoric Archaeology 108Margaret W. ConkeySection 2 Gender and Prehistoric Material Culture 1216 Gender and Prehistoric Rock Art 122Kelley Hays-Gilpin7 Gender and Lithic Studies in Prehistoric Archaeology 142Nyree Finlay8 Gender, Labor, and Pottery Production in Prehistory 161Diane Bolger9 Gender and Textile Production in Prehistory 180Cathy Lynne CostinSection 3 Gendered Bodies and Identities in Prehistory 20310 Personhood in Prehistory: A Feminist Archaeology in Ten Persons 204Yvonne Marshall11 Bioarchaeological Approaches to the Gendered Body 226Joanna Sofaer12 Figurines, Corporeality, and the Origins of the Gendered Body 244Douglass W. Bailey13 Goddesses in Prehistory 265Lucy Goodison and Christine MorrisPart II Regional Perspectives in Gender Prehistory 289Section 4 Gender Prehistory in Africa and Asia 289 14 Gender in North African Prehistory 291Barbara E. Barich15 Gender in the Prehistory of Sub-Saharan Africa 313Lyn Wadley16 Gender and Archaeology in Coastal East Asia 333Sarah Milledge Nelson17 Gender Archaeology in East Asia and Eurasia 351Katheryn M. Linduff and Karen S. Rubinson18 Gender in Southwest Asian Prehistory 372Diane Bolger and Rita P. WrightSection 5 Gender in European Prehistory 39519 The History of Gender Archaeology in Northern Europe 396Marie Louise Stig Sørensen20 Gender in Eastern European Prehistory 413John Chapman and Nona Palincaº21 Gender and Feminism in the Prehistoric Archaeology of Southwest Europe 438Margarita Díaz-Andreu and Sandra Montón-Subías22 Gender in British Prehistory 458Benjamin Edwards and Rachel Pope23 Gender in Central Mediterranean Prehistory 480Ruth Whitehouse24 Gender in Greek and Aegean Prehistory 502Louise Hitchcock and Marianna NikolaidouSection 6 Gender Prehistory in the Americas and the South Pacific 52625 Gender in the Prehistory of the Eastern United States 527Cheryl Claassen26 The Archaeology of Gender in Western North America 544Alice Beck Kehoe27 The Archaeology of Gender in Mesoamerica: Moving Beyond Gender Complementarity 564Elizabeth M. Brumfiel28 Gender in South American Prehistory 585Melissa A. Vogel and Robyn E. Cutright29 Gender and Archaeology in Australia, Papua New Guinea, and the South Pacific 608Cherrie De LeiuenIndex 628