ANTH 9 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Maya Ceramics, Laziness, Starch
3 Sep 2020
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In the study of hunter-gatherer sites the contribution of women to the material culture is little studied. We argue that the archaeological invisibility" of females is more the result of a false notion of objectivity and of the gender paradigms archaeologists employ, than of an inherent invisibility of such data (conkey and spector 1984) It has long been assumed that stone tools were created by men and that women dealt in perishable artifacts thus there is little of women in the archaeological record. Some contest this and say that at domestic sites women may have generated most of the expedient stone tools. Women may also have worked with bone tools. Gender roles in h&g societies may have been quite flexible. Women may have been hunters of small game and may have assisted with meat transport and preparation for larger animals. Ethnographic analogy is used to look at gender activities.
