Sexual Revolutions Gender and Labor at the Dawn of Agriculture,9780759102569

Sexual Revolutions Gender and Labor at the Dawn of Agriculture

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ISBN13: 9780759102569
ISBN10: 0759102562
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-09-18
Publisher(s): AltaMira Press
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Summary

Description, based upon research evidence from the Near East and elsewhere, of the change in the gendered division of labor during the Neolithic agricultural revolution.

Author Biography

Jane Peterson is an assistant professor of anthropology at Marquette University in the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences

Table of Contents

List of Figures and Tables
ix
Foreword xi
Sarah Milledge Nelson
Acknowledgments xiii
An Investigation of Labor Patterns
1(12)
Work Patterns and Sexual Divisions: Historical Background
2(1)
Social Models in Archaeology: Past and Future
3(4)
Sex and Gender Terminology
7(1)
Study Area and Chronology
7(3)
Organization
10(3)
Archaeological Evidence from the Southern Levant
13(42)
Natufian Period
14(10)
Pre-Pottery Neolithic Period
24(11)
Pottery Neolithic Period
35(3)
Chalcolithic Period
38(8)
Early Bronze I Period
46(8)
Conclusion
54(1)
Markers of Occupational Stress
55(18)
Historical Overview
56(2)
Structural Changes
58(2)
Joint Modification
60(2)
Trauma
62(3)
Tooth Wear, Dental Trauma, and Caries
65(2)
Musculoskeletal Stress Markers
67(4)
Conclusion
71(2)
Previous Skeletal Studies from the Levant
73(14)
Extant Studies
74(8)
Chronological Summary
82(3)
Conclusion
85(2)
New Musculoskeletal Stress Markers
87(40)
Materials
87(4)
Methods
91(4)
Analytical Techniques
95(3)
Natufian Results
98(8)
Neolithic Results
106(13)
Early Bronze I Results
119(1)
Diachronic Results
119(5)
Conclusion
124(3)
Modeling Changing Labor Scenarios
127(20)
Integrating MSM with Previous Activity Reconstructions
128(1)
Activities and Performance Spaces
129(5)
Models of Sexual Labor Changes with the Advent of Farming
134(9)
An Engendered Model
143(3)
Conclusion
146(1)
References 147(26)
Index 173(5)
About the Author 178

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