Gender and the Archaeology of Death

Part 1 Introduction Part 2 Gender Ideology and Mortuary Analysis Chapter 3 1. Killing the Female? Archaeological Narratives of Infanticide Chapter 4 2. Life, Death, and the Longhouse: A Gendered View of Oneota Social Organization Chapter 5 3. Gender Studies in Chinese Neolithic Archaeology Part 6 Gender and Power Chapter 7 4. Visible Women Made Invisible: Interpreting Varangian Women in Old Russia Chapter 8 5. The Position of Iron Age Scandinavian Women: Evidence from Graves and Rune Stones Part 9 Gender Roles and the Ambiguity of Signification Chapter 10 6. Gender and Mortuary Analysis: What Can Grave Goods Really Tell Us? Chapter 11 7. Sharing the Load: Gender and Task Division at the Windover Site Chapter 12 8. Grave Goods Do Not a Gender Make: A Case Study from Singen am Hohentwiel, Germany Part 13 Weapons, Women, Warriors Chapter 14 9. Decoding the Gender Bias: Inferences of Atlatls in Female Mortuary Contexts Chapter 15 10. Warfare and Gender in the Northern Plains: Osteological Evidence of Trauma Reconsidered

Bettina Arnold teaches anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, and Nancy L. Wicker is in the Art Department at Minnesota State University, Mankato.

The book provides a much needed compendium of theoretical and methodological examples of engendered approaches to mortuary analysis...succeeds in bringing together several excellent papers that re-examine and test interpretive assumptions regarding gender and mortuary remains...valuable to those interested in the archeology of gender. Canadian Journal Of Archaeology, (2003) The...papers [in Gender and the Archaeology of Death] lend unquestionable support to archaeology's role in illuminating women's lives and challenging conventional wisdom about the gendered division of labor...Bettina Arnold and Nancy Wicker have compiled a timely group of papers that encompasses many recent trends in the archaeology of gender. Beyond merely "finding women," the volume rides the waves of newer currents that depict women as diverse, as active, and as individuals with mutable identities. -- Patricia E. Rubertone, Brown University American Antiquity, Vol. 69, No. 1, 2004 Drs Arnold & Wicker present 10 substantial studies on mortuary analysis, social power, 'ambiguity of signification,' and war... They are interesting and useful, either as case studies or as methodological disquisitions... -- N. James Antiquity Drs Arnold & Wicker present 10 substantial studies on mortuary analysis, social power, 'ambiguity of signification,' and war... They are interesting and useful, either as case studies or as methodological disquisitions. -- N. James Antiquity