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The Archaeological Challenge of Gender book cover

1st Edition

The Archaeological Challenge of Gender

Edited By Anne Augereau, Christophe Darmangeat Copyright 2026
162 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

162 Pages 7 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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The Archaeological Challenge of Gender asks, what do we know about the relations between men and women in past societies, and on what basis is this knowledge built? Although sources of data are meagre and often indirect, this book plays particular attention to exploring gender relations in a way that acknowledges its complexity. Contributors show how difficult questions on gender... Read more

Introduction 

Anne Augereau & Christophe Darmangeat


The past of gender and its contemporary stakes


1. Prehistoric gender: an instrumentalized narrative

Anne Augereau & Christophe Darmangeat


2. Gender in the past: trends, dead ends and developments in the archaeology of gender and women

Anne Augereau & Christophe Darmangeat


Setting the scene


3. Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*In Archaeology)

Bruno Boulestin


4. Sex and gender among monkeys and apes

Pascal Picq

Past and present biases in hunter-gatherer studies


5. Pink Guns: ancient huntresses and modern biases

John C. Whittaker & Kathryn A. Kamp


6. Strawman the Hunter

Fabien Abraini

7. Revisiting Late Palaeolithic societies from a gender perspective: limits and possibilities

Esther Lopez-Montalvo & Nicolas Teyssandier

Primitive matriarchy: new insights into an old issue


8. What myths tell us about the age of male domination

Julien d’Huy & Jean-Loïc Le Quellec


9. On the Neolithic „Great Goddess” in South-East Europe

Eszter Bánffy


Interpreting data

10. The “Dame du Cavillon”: fantasies and realities

Dominique Henry-Gambier


11. Giving voice to the dead: the roles and status of Neolithic men and women

Aline Thomas


12. Blossoming in the shadow: Women in western Zhou China (1045 – 771 BCE)

Yan Sun


13. Occam’s battle-axe: Some thoughts about responsible archaeology spurred by Bj 581

Oren Falk

Biography

Anne Augereau is a prehistorian at Inrap (French Institute of preventive archaeological research). She is a specialist in the Neolithic period, with a particular interest in lithic technology, mining archaeology, funerary archaeology and gender archaeology. She has directed numerous archaeological excavations.

Christophe Darmangeat is senior lecturer in social anthropology (Université Paris Cité, LADYSS). His research, at the crossroads of social anthropology and prehistory, has focused in particular on the emergence of gender, wealth inequalities and the forms of collective violence, using an evolutionary and materialist approach. He runs a blog, lahuttedesclasses.net.

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