Books in the Gender and Archaeology series

States that rock art is often one of the strongest lines of evidence available to scholars in understanding ritual practices, gender roles, and ideological constructs of prehistoric peoples. This book argues that art is both a product of its physical and social environment and a tool of influence in shaping behavior and ideas within a society.

In Pursuit of Gender advances the study of gender in archaeology with detailed data, a world-wide scope and carefully reasoned conclusions that move into new territory, paving the way towards further research in gender-based theory.

InIdentity and Subsistence, a number of scholars look at how the idea of gender has worked with respect to the formation of the self, ideas of femininity and masculinity, human evolution, and the development of early agrarian and pastoralist societies.

Part One of Nelson's 'Handbook of Gender in Archaeology.'

Edited volume on what archaeological mortuary analysis can tell researchers about gender relations in the ancient world.

Edited volume tracing the state of knowledge of gender in Ancient Mayan society.

InIdentity and Subsistence, a number of scholars look at how the idea of gender has worked with respect to the formation of the self, ideas of femininity and masculinity, human evolution, and the development of early agrarian and pastoralist societies.

This is the first book to consider issues of gender and social identity across a broad temporal and geographical range of civilizations in the ancient Near East.

Part IV of Nelson's 'Handbook of Gender in Archaeology' (2006). Examines the archaeology of women's lives and activities around the globe.

Shedding new light on the division of power, the essays in this volume explore the variety of roles and assumptions about queens from the Americas to Eurasia. Together they provide a global tour of archaeological and historical queens that illustrate the intersection of gender and power in archaeology.

This collection of original essays presents an in-depth look at the archaeology of the Eurasian steppe-from China to Europe-and the evidence of gender roles in ancient nomadic societies.

First reference work to explore the research on gender in archaeology.

Edited volume on what archaeological mortuary analysis can tell researchers about gender relations in the ancient world.

Examines some of the fundamental facets of gender as they intersect with the dynamics of social, political, and economic change in Cyprus, beginning with the earliest traces of human habitation on the island to the final phases of the Bronze Age.

Reflects the various changes in the study of gender and archaeology. This title covers issues such as sexuality studies, the body, children, and feminist pedagogy. It also covers the roles of women and men in such areas as human origins, the sexual division of labor, kinship and other social structures, state development, and ideology.

Description, based upon research evidence from the Near East and elsewhere, of the change in the gendered division of labor during the Neolithic agricultural revolution.

Looks at the role of women in Chinese archaeology.