Table of Contents
List of Illustrations x
List of Tables xiii
Notes on Contributors xiv
Acknowledgments xxii
Introduction: Gender Prehistory - The Story So Far Diane Bolger 1
Part I Thematic Perspectives in Gender Prehistory 21
Section 1 Current Themes and Debates 21
1 Engendering Human Evolution Adrienne Zihlman 23
2 Gender, Complexity, and Power in Prehistory Scott R. Hutson Bryan K. Hanks K. Anne Pyburn 45
3 Archaeology of Embodied Subjectivities Teresa Dujnic Bulger Rosemary A. Joyce 68
4 Queer Prehistory: Bodies, Performativity, and Matter Benjamin Alberti 86
5 The Future of Gender in Prehistoric Archaeology Margaret W. Conkey 108
Section 2 Gender and Prehistoric Material Culture 121
6 Gender and Prehistoric Rock Art Kelley Hays-Gilpin 122
7 Gender and Lithic Studies in Prehistoric Archaeology Nyree Finlay 142
8 Gender, Labor, and Pottery Production in Prehistory Diane Bolger 161
9 Gender and Textile Production in Prehistory Cathy Lynne Costin 180
Section 3 Gendered Bodies and Identities in Prehistory 203
10 Personhood in Prehistory: A Feminist Archaeology in Ten Persons Yvonne Marshall 204
11 Bioarchaeological Approaches to the Gendered Body Joanna Sofaer 226
12 Figurines, Corporeality, and the Origins of the Gendered Body Douglass W. Bailey 244
13 Goddesses in Prehistory Lucy Goodison Christine Morris 265
Part II Regional Perspectives in Gender Prehistory 289
Section 4 Gender Prehistory in Africa and Asia 289
14 Gender in North African Prehistory Barbara E. Barich 291
15 Gender in the Prehistory of Sub-Saharan Africa Lyn Wadley 313
16 Gender and Archaeology in Coastal East Asia Sarah Milledge Nelson 333
17 Gender Archaeology in East Asia and Eurasia Katheryn M. Linduff Karen S. Rubinson 351
18 Gender in Southwest Asian Prehistory Diane Bolger Rita P. Wright 372
Section 5 Gender in European Prehistory 395
19 The History of Gender Archaeology in Northern Europe Marie Louise Stig Sørensen 396
20 Gender in Eastern European Prehistory John Chapman Nona Palincas 413
21 Gender and Feminism in the Prehistoric Archaeology of Southwest Europe Margarita Díaz-Andreu Sandra Montón-Subías 438
22 Gender in British Prehistory Benjamin Edwards Rachel Pope 458
23 Gender in Central Mediterranean Prehistory Ruth Whitehouse 480
24 Gender in Greek and Aegean Prehistory Louise Hitchcock Marianna Nikolaidou 502
Section 6 Gender Prehistory in the Americas and the South Pacific 526
25 Gender in the Prehistory of the Eastern United States Cheryl Classen 527
26 The Archaeology of Gender in Western North America Alice Beck Kehoe 544
27 The Archaeology of Gender in Mesoamerica: Moving Beyond Gender Complementarity Elizabeth M. Brumfiel 564
28 Gender in South American Prehistory Melissa A. Vogel Robyn E. Cutright 585
29 Gender and Archaeology in Australia, Papua New Guinea, and the South Pacific Cherrie De Leiuen 608
Index 628
