Domesticating gender: Neolithic patterns from the southern Levant

Authors

Jane Peterson, Marquette UniversityFollow

Document Type

Article

Language

eng

Format of Original

16 p.

Publication Date

2010

Publisher

Elsevier

Source Publication

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

Source ISSN

0278-4165

Original Item ID

doi: 10.1016/j.jaa.2010.03.002

Abstract

This paper examines the extant evidence regarding gender reconstructions and relations for the Neolithic of the southern Levant of southwest Asia. Data from human skeletal remains, mortuary contexts, architecture, and figurative art provide the empirical bases for a broad assessment of gender in the realms of productive labor, social organization, and ideology. Overall, little evidence is found to support that Neolithic societies in this region were organized hierarchically in terms of gender.

Comments

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, Vol. 29, No. 3, (September 2010): 249-264. DOI

Recommended Citation

Peterson, Jane, "Domesticating gender: Neolithic patterns from the southern Levant" (2010). Social and Cultural Sciences Faculty Research and Publications. 37.
https://epublications.marquette.edu/socs_fac/37