Gender in Earlier Bronze Age Ireland and Scotland

Datos Bibliográficos

ID7175248
AutoresM Haughton (0000-0002-6120-4600, Department of Archaeology, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen26
Número1
Páginas19-38
Fecha de publicación2022-08-15
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEuropean Journal of Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1461-9571 • E-ISSN: 1741-2722
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/eaa.2022.29
OpenAlexW4291555473
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas2
Referencias citadas42

Gender has long been recognized as an important structuring agent in Bronze Age communities across Europe. A strong impression of binary gender emerges from some Early Bronze Age cemeteries, and models of social organization developed from this evidence have greatly influenced understandings of gender across the continent. This article focuses on two regions with more equivocal evidence: Ireland and Scotland, where idiosyncratic practices characterize individual cemeteries alongside wider trends. Expressions of gender varied in radical ways between different communities, and this cannot be captured or explained by the current grand narratives for the European Bronze Age. Instead, the author argues that gender could be subtle, contextual, and of varying importance to individual communities at different times, not necessarily a common feature unifying the European Bronze Age

Ancient history · Art · Bronze · Bronze Age · Geography · Literature · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · Structuring · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Gender Studies · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology