1. Introduction: the promise of gender in archaeology; 2. Lived experience and the gendered lens on prehistory; 3. Gender and the European Bronze Age; 4. Encounters with the margins: Becoming gendered on the edge; 5. Tales from the margins: Scotland; 6. Tales from the margins: Ireland; 7. Converging narratives: Understanding gender in Early Bronze Age Ireland and Scotland; 8. Gender unbound: Contextual gender in Bronze Age Europe; 9. Writing human lives: Sitting with variability
Biography
Mark Haughton is a prehistoric archaeologist and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions postdoctoral fellow at University College Dublin, Ireland. This work is based on research conducted while a Teaching Associate and PhD fellow at the University of Cambridge and as a postdoctoral researcher at Aarhus University, Denmark. He is interested in human lives in prehistory, broadly centred around themes relating to gender and the body, human/animal relations, mobility and domestic life.
Mark Haughton’s groundbreaking work upends the narrative of binary gender that locates the origin of patriarchal society in the European Bronze Age. Instead, he traces the varied and creative ways in which gendered identities were performed in Bronze Age Scotland and Ireland.
- Prof. Joanna Brück, University College Dublin
