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"Engendering Archaeology advances significantly the small but growing literature on gender in archeology." Archeology

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This pathbreaking book brings gender issues to archaeology for the first time, in an explicit and theoretically informed way. In it, leading archaeologists from around the world contribute original analyses of prehistoric data to discover how gender systems operated in the past.

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The title of this volume is Engendering Archaeology: Women and Prehistory; the chapters are intended to contribute to the study of gender systems in both prehistory and the practice of archaeology. Read the first page
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engendered prehistory, okiye win, large spindle whorls, small spindle whorls, task differentiation framework, whorl frequencies, mortar features, banquet seals, feminist archaeology, paleoethnobotanical data, bedrock mortars, awl handle, paired valves, mortar facilities, household archaeology, lithic studies, pounding acorn, northern flint, pottery production, lithic production, pottery technology, shell accumulation, flake tools, stone tool production, house replacement
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New York, Lepenski Vir, Cambridge University Press, Academic Press, Little Rapids, Upper Paleolithic, American Antiquity, North America, Valley of Mexico, Ann Arbor, Eastern Woodlands, Royal Cemetery, Sierra Nevada, University of Chicago Press, Department of Anthropology, Cueto de la Mina, Shell Mound Archaic, University of Michigan, Late Aztec, Journal of Women, University Microfilms, Western Mono, Columbia University Press, Green River, Smithsonian Institution
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