Gender archaeology and Scandinavian Bronze age studies

Abstract

The theoretical recognition of the role of gender in forming society is still separated from its practical realization in archaeology. This is partly due to lack of self‐reflection within gender archaeology, as exemplified by the problematic distinction commonly drawn between sex and gender. Despite this, gender studies are relevant to archaeology; but the problems must be appropriate to the specific society and responsive to the ways it employed material culture. The Danish Bronze Age is used to trace how ‘gender’ has already influenced understanding of prehistory and the problems encountered. On this basis gender explicit research topics of importance for Bronze Age studies are outlined.

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