Fylo. Engendering Prehistoric ‘Stratigraphies’ in the Aegean and the Mediterranean

Proceedings of an International Conference, University of Crete, Rethymno 2-5 June 2005

edited by K. Kopaka

Book cover: Fylo. Engendering Prehistoric ‘Stratigraphies’ in the Aegean and the Mediterranean

Extent: 283 pages

Publisher: Peeters Publishers

Subjects: Ancient Near East, Mediterranean Archaeology

Series: Aegaeum

Series volume number: 30

Language: English

Hardback (Published)

(September 2009)

ISBN: 9781935488248

Price: $107.00

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Table of Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Introductory note Abbreviations A. OPENING LECTURE - Liv Helga Dommasnes, Women in archaeology in Norway : twenty years of gendered archaeological practice and some thoughts about changes to come B. PLENARY SESSION -- A TRIBUTE TO PAUL REHAK: PAST AND PRESENT GENDER ISSUES, A STATE OF ART - Paul Rehak (ed. John Younger), Some unpublished studies by Paul Rehak on gender in Aegean art - Alexandra Alexandri, Envisioning gender in Aegean prehistory - Dimitra Kokkinidou and Marianna Nikolaidou, Feminism and Greek archaeology: an encounter long over-due C. WORLDS OF WOMEN, MEN AND BEYOND: GENDER IDENTITIES, ROLES, INTERACTIONS, SYMBOLISMS Cyprus - Diane Bolger, Beyond male/female: recent approaches to gender in Cypriot prehistory - Giorgos Vavouranakis, A "speared Aphrodite" from Bronze Age Audemou, Cyprus Jordan - Julia Muller-Clemm, Cemetery A of Tell el-Mazar, Jordan. A gender-critical relecture Spain - Paloma Gonzalez-Marcen and Sandra Monton-Subias, Time, women, identity and maintenance activities. Death and life in the Argaric communities of southeast Iberia - Margarita Sanchez-Romero, Women in Bronze Age southeast Iberian peninsula : daily life, relationships, identities Aegean and the Balkans - Christina Marangou, Gendered/sexed and sexless beings in prehistory: readings of the invisible gender Aegean - Louise A. Hitchcock, Knossos is burning: gender bending the Minoan genius - Penelope J.P. McGeorge, Gender meta-analysis of Late Bronze Age skeletal remains: the case of Tomb 2 in the Pylona cemetery on Rhodes - Barbara A. Olsen, Was there unity in Mycenaean gender practices? The women of Pylos and Knossos in the Linear B tablets - Kim S. Shellton, Who wears the horns? Gender choices in Mycenaean terracotta figurines - Alexander Uchitel, The Minoan Linear A sign for "woman": a tentative identification - Judith Weingarten, The Zakro master and questions of gender - Marika Zeimbeki, Gender, kinship and material culture in Aegean Bronze Age ritual D. FORMATION OF PAST GENDER: COMING OF AGE, CHILDHOOD, WOMANHOOD, MOTHERHOOD- Francoise Audouze and Frederic Janny, Can we hope to identify children's activities in Upper Palaeolithic settlements? - Anne P. Chapin, Constructions of male youth and gender in Aegean art: the evidence from Late Bronze Age Crete and Thera - Katerina Kopaka, Mothers in Aegean stratigraphies? The dawn of ever-continuing engendered life cycles - Maia Pomadere, Ou sont les meres ? Representations et realites de la maternite dans le monde egeen protohistorique - John G. Younger, "We are woman": girl, maid, matron in Aegean art E. READING AEGEAN GENDER: THROUGH WOMEN'S AND MEN'S EYES - Isabelle Bradfer-Burdet, Phedre ou la Goulue : l'antiquite travestie. Les femmes de l'Age du Bronze mises a nu par les archeologues du XXeme siecle - Gerald Cadogan, Gender metaphors of social stratigraphy in pre-linear B Crete , or Is "Minoan gynaecocracy" (still) credible? - Lucy Goodison, Gender, body and the Minoans: contemporary and prehistoric perceptions - Christine Morris, The iconography of the bared breast in Aegean Bronze Age art F. ENGENDERING AEGEAN FIELDWORK: THE CONTRIBUTION OF WOMEN ARCHAEOLOGISTS - Susan Heuck Allen, Excavating women: female pairings in early Aegean archaeology (1871-1918) - Anna Lucia D'Agata, Women archaeologists and non-palatial Greece : a case-study from Crete "of the hundred cities" - Metaxia Tsipopoulou, Harriet Boyd's "granddaughters": women directors of excavations and surveys in Crete at the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st century

  • Edited by Katerina Kopaka