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 Katerina Kopaka

City: Liège / Austin

Year: 2009

Publisher: Université de Liège / University of Texas

Series: Aegaeum 30

Description: Hardback, 283 p., b/w ill., 43 pl., 29,5×21 cm

Abstract

Twenty-nine papers are presented from the eponymous June 2005 conference run by the University of Crete as part of an interdisciplinary program on Gender in Social Sciences. Written by archaeologists of the prehistoric Aegean and wider Mediterranean, the papers focus on the issue of gender in the archaeology of the Bronze Age, as well as of the Neolithic and Upper Palaeolithic periods.

Contents

Preface & Acknowledgements
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’ [3-8].

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 John YOUNGER), ‘Some unpublished studies by Paul Rehak on gender in Aegean art’ [11-17].

Alexandra Alexandri, ‘Envisioning gender in Aegean prehistory’ [19-24].

Dimitra Kokkinidou & Marianna Nikolaidou, ‘Feminism and Greek archaeology: An encounter long over-due’ [25-37].

C. WORLDS OF WOMEN, MEN AND BEYOND: GENDER IDENTITIES, ROLES, INTERACTIONS, SYMBOLISMS

Diane Bolger, ‘Beyond male/female: Recent approaches to gender in Cypriot prehistory’ [41-48].

Giorgos Vavouranakis, ‘A “speared Aphrodite” from Bronze Age Audemou, Cyprus’ [49-58].

Julia Müller-Clemm, ‘Cemetery A of Tell el-Mazar, Jordan. A gender-critical relecture’ [59-67].

Paloma González-Marcen & Sandra Montón-Subías, ‘Time, women, identity and maintenance activities. Death and life in the Argaric communities of southeast Iberia’ [69-74].

Margarita Sánchez-Romero, ‘Women in Bronze Age southeast Iberian peninsula: daily life, relationships, identities’ [75-79].

Christina Marangou, ‘Gendered/sexed and sexless beings in prehistory: readings of the invisible gender’ [81-95].

Louise A. Hitchcock, ‘Knossos is burning: Gender bending the Minoan genius’ [98-102].

Penelope J.P. McGeorge, ‘Gender meta-analysis of Late Bronze Age skeletal remains: the case of Tomb 2 in the Pylona cemetery on Rhodes’ [103-114].

Barbara A. Olsen, ‘Was there unity in Mycenaean gender practices? The women of Pylos and Knossos in the Linear B tablets’ [115-124].

Kim S. Shelton, ‘Who wears the horns? Gender choices in Mycenaean terracotta figurines’ [125-130].

Alexander Uchitel, The Minoan Linear A sign for “woman”: A tentative identification’ [131-137].

Judith Weingarten, ‘The Zakro master and questions of gender’ [139-150].

Marika Zeimbeki, ‘Gender, kinship and material culture in Aegean Bronze Age ritual’ [151-163].

D. FORMATION OF PAST GENDER: COMING OF AGE, CHILDHOOD, WOMANHOOD, MOTHERHOOD

Françoise Audouze & Frédéric Janny, ‘Can we hope to identify children’s activities in Upper Palaeolithic settlements?’ [167-174].

Anne P. Chapin, ‘Constructions of male youth and gender in Aegean art: The evidence from Late Bronze Age Crete and Thera’ [175-182].

Katerina Kopaka, ‘Mothers in Aegean stratigraphies? The dawn of ever-continuing engendered life cycles’ [183-195].

Maia Pomadère, ‘Où sont les mères? Représentations et réalités de la maternité dans le monde égéen protohistorique’ [197-206].

John G. Younger, ‘“We are woman”: Girl, maid, matron in Aegean art’ [207-212].

E. READING AEGEAN GENDER: THROUGH WOMEN’S AND MEN’S EYES

Isabelle Bradfer-Burdet, ‘Phèdre ou la Goulue : l’antiquité travestie. Les femmes de l’Âge du Bronze mises à nu par les archéologues du XXème siècle’ [215-224].

Gerald Cadogan, ‘Gender metaphors of social stratigraphy in pre-linear B Crete, or is “Minoan gynaecocracy” (still) credible?’ [225-232].

Lucy Goodison, ‘Gender, body and the Minoans: contemporary and prehistoric perceptions’ [233-242].

Christine Morris, ‘The iconography of the bared breast in Aegean Bronze Age art’ [243-249].

F. ENGENDERING AEGEAN FIELDWORK: THE CONTRIBUTION OF WOMEN ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Susan Heuck Allen, ‘Excavating women: Female pairings in early Aegean archaeology (1871-1918)’ [253-261].

Anna Lucia d’Agata, ‘Women archaeologists and non-palatial Greece: A case-study from Crete “of the hundred cities”’ [263-271].

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’ [273-283].