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Women in Prehistory: North America and Mesoamerica (Regendering the Past)

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During the 1960s, in such works as Man the Hunter, scholars constructed a model of cultural evolution during which men were characterized as “cooperative hunters of big game.” Women fit neatly into this model, such books as Woman the Gatherer explained, as gatherers of plant food. Regardless of evidence of hunting by women, this model—which incorporated the unexamined assumption that girls in prehistory were “immobilized” by pregnancy, lactation, and child care and due to this fact had to be left at a home base—came to dominate archaeological interpretation of the industrial roles of women and men.

Women in Prehistory challenges this model and undertakes an examination of the archaeological record informed by insights into the cultural construction of gender that have emerged from scholarship in history, anthropology, biology, and related disciplines. At the side of analysis of burial assemblages and of representations of gendered individuals, contributors study bone chemistry, assessment of skeletal pathologies, micro- and macro-scale distributional evidence, in addition to analogical arguments from ethnoarchaeology and ethnohistory to speak about pottery, shell matrix sites, skeletal material, the domestic setting, and spinning.

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