Are All Warriors Male?

Katheryn M. Linduff is University Center for International Studies Professor of art history and archaeology at the University of Pittsburgh, specializing in the study of early China and Inner Asia. Karen S. Rubinson is a research scholar in the Department of Anthropology at Barnard College.

The 'warrior woman' concept has captured the scholarly and popular imagination at least since Herodotus' excursus on the Amazons. Most treatments of this subject, however, have tended to focus on historically documented contexts. This edited volume of essays by leading scholars presents the archaeological evidence for the prehistoric social configurations of Eurasian steppe peoples. It is a timely and rigorously researched treatment of ancient societies in which the domain of war was not always exclusively male.

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 Introduction: The Nature of Nomads, Cultural Variation, and Gender Roles Past and PresentPart 3 Part I: The Warrior Culture: Myth and IdentityChapter 4 1. Reconsidering Warfare, Status, and Gender in the Eurasian Steppe Iron AgeChapter 5 2. Arma Feminamque Cano: Warrior Women in the Indo-European WorldChapter 6 3. Tillya Tepe: Aspects of Gender and Cultural IdentityPart 7 Part II: Horses and the Gendering of Identity on the Steppe and BeyondChapter 8 4. Women's Attire and Possible Sacred Role in 4th Millennium Northern KazakhstanChapter 9 5. He Who Eats the Horse, She Who Rides It? Symbols of Gender Identity on the Eastern Edges of the Eurasian SteppeChapter 10 6. Horses and Gender in Korea: The Legacy of the Steppe on the Edge of AsiaPart 11 Part III: Marriage, Families, and Death on the SteppeChapter 12 7. Women and Children in the Sargat CultureChapter 13 8. Sorting Out Men and Women in the Karasuk CultureChapter 14 9. The Gender of Luxury and Power among the Xiongnu in Eastern Eurasia