Sex and Gender (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only James VanderVeen. Rebecca Gibson. Sabrina Lute.

While historical documentation is, for the most part, a deliberate system of record keeping, the archaeological record primarily exists because of the accidental deposition of artifacts. Often these artifacts cannot be coded as representing either male or female use or ownership; however, in certain artifact assemblages where the history of the site is well documented, the researcher can examine the artifacts with an eye toward gendering them and re-creating the story of the people who utilized...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rachel Hoerman.

Multiple indigenous and intrusive Borneo rock art (the additive or reductive human modification of naturally fixed-in-place stone) traditions depict figures and abstract designs that can be interpreted as sexed/gendered. Dating from the terminal Pleistocene through modern period, these images are an untapped source of archaeological information regarding the roles and interactions of the biological sexes and culturally constructed and ascribed genders. This paper uses rock art to identify and...