Ancient Bodies, Ancient Lives: Sex, Gender, and Archaeology

There has never been a single way that social life has been organized by sex.

The ancient Greeks saw men and women as expressing varying degrees of a single sexual potential; many Native American societies considered sexual identity as something that changed and developed during a lifetime, and recognized three or four categories of sexual identity.

Ranging from the earliest European hunters who created the first human images known to us almost 30,000 years ago to the lives of men and women f...